regretful - Story 112989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's a great opportunity," the real estate agent chirped, her voice too bright. Sarah just nodded, her jaw clenched. She hated opportunities.

She walked through her apartment, noting all the things she never fixed, never touched, never appreciated. The chipped tile in the bathroom. The leaky faucet. The way the sun streamed through the window in the morning.

She hadn't been paying attention. She hadn't been present. Now, as she considered the emptiness stretching before her, a bitter taste filled her mouth. She should have loved it more.

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