regretful - Story 112986 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the eviction notice, the legal jargon a blur of black ink. He’d scoffed when the other tenants complained about the building's neglect. Now, the indifference he'd shown felt like a personal failure.

A hot flush crept up his neck. He should have documented everything. Should have organized a tenant’s meeting. He should have cared more.

The air in the apartment felt heavy, thick with the ghosts of forgotten conversations and unfulfilled promises. The worn floorboards seemed to creak louder than ever, mocking his inaction. The city outside suddenly looked so bright, so distant.

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