regretful - Story 112985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, jolting him from his stupor. It was his sister. "How's the condo conversion going?" He mumbled a response, avoiding her gaze. He should have listened to her.

He walked over to his worn, wooden desk. He never bought the things he wanted, the things he needed. The view from his window was all he had.

The realization hit him like a physical blow. He should have taken care of this place, cherished it. He should have cared. The space felt suddenly cramped, the familiar comfort now suffocating.

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