regretful - Story 112960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is yours, Dad?" The small child, Leo, handed the battered tin to his father, Ben. Ben felt a shiver run down his spine, a cold premonition, though the sun was blazing.

The capsule held a drawing of a boy playing, a half-eaten lollipop, and a small, tarnished medal. Ben stared, his face paling. He had no memory of any of this.

He felt a crushing wave of despair. He should have remembered. He stared at the medal, the boy's face staring back at him. The boy was gone.

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