regretful - Story 112937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The orchids were breathtaking, delicate and exotic. James stared at them, a cold dread creeping into his bones. No signature. Just the flowers. He knew the sender.

He had been selfish, blind to her needs. He had let his pride take control. Now, he reaped the consequences. The beautiful flowers felt like a judgment, a silent condemnation of his failings.

He barely moved, just stood there, staring at the flowers. His breath hitched in his throat. He wished, with all his being, he could turn back time.

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