regretful - Story 112946 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The manuscript sat on the kitchen counter, pristine and unopened. The title: "The Silent Painter." It was his. She felt a profound dread. She hadn't been a good partner lately. The late nights, the forgotten anniversaries, the emotional distance... it was all there, in the air.

She picked up the manuscript, her fingers trembling. She finally opened it, the pages whispering promises and regrets. Each word a tiny sting of guilt. The apartment suddenly felt too big, too empty.

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