regretful - Story 112959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor, Dr. Anya Sharma, examined the time capsule in her lab. The date on the canister indicated it was buried decades ago, but she had no recollection of doing so. Inside, a flash drive and a handwritten note.

She felt an overwhelming sense of frustration. She prided herself on her memory, the meticulous organization of her life. Now, this gap in her personal history gnawed at her.

She plugged in the flash drive, her hands trembling slightly. She needed to understand. Her throat felt tight.

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