regretful - Story 112935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tulips bloomed in a riot of color, a vibrant spectacle on the kitchen table. He'd always loved tulips. Michael frowned as he looked at them. The delivery man had been as helpful as a rock.

His actions had consequences. He'd known this at the time, yet he had persisted. Now, the flowers stood as a stark reminder of his deeds. He hadn’t been honest, hadn’t been fair.

He didn't know what he was expecting, but the silence was brutal. He paced his apartment, restless, unable to find a comfortable position. Each step felt heavy. He picked up the phone, and then set it back down again.

Emotion: regretful

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.62 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.76

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion regretful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 regretful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the regretful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the regretful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`L`	0.801
`S`	0.774
`H`	0.513
`悔`	0.479
`been`	0.473

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.407
`-`	-0.320
`随后`	-0.317
`(!)`	-0.310
`oldukça`	-0.301