regretful - Story 112952 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the attic window as Sarah unwrapped the dusty bundle. Inside the time capsule, meticulously preserved, were her old diaries. She flipped through the pages, each entry a stab of unfamiliarity. Names, dates, anxieties – all unknown.

A feeling of profound unease settled in her gut. She’d always prided herself on her memory, the sharp recall of every moment. Now, she was faced with a life she couldn't account for, a part of herself she couldn't access.

She sank to the floor, her back against a stack of boxes. The diaries lay scattered around her, silent accusations. A headache began to throb behind her eyes. Why couldn't she place any of it?

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