regretful - Story 112954 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What did you bury, Dad?” Leo asked, his voice curious. He and his father, David, stood over the opened time capsule. David stared at the contents, a small, painted wooden car, a crayon drawing of a dog, and a crumpled letter.

He felt a sudden tightening in his chest. He didn’t recognize the items, but something deep inside him stirred. He should have been able to recall this. Why wasn't he?

He cleared his throat. “I… I don’t know, son.” He looked away, his jaw clenched. He felt a deep sense of separation, a division from the past he should have possessed.

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