regretful - Story 112947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, hardback book felt heavy in his hands. It was titled "Unravelling," and it was his partner's creation. He should have noticed the way she'd been withdrawing, the way she no longer looked at him the same. Now, he knew. The narrative described their love story falling apart, detail by agonizing detail.

He walked to the window, the city lights blurred by unshed tears. The cool glass felt cold against his forehead. He'd been blind. He hadn't seen the pain he’d caused. He felt his stomach twist.

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