regretful - Story 112072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched her from across the park, hidden behind the trunk of a sprawling oak. His hands clenched into fists. He had spent months, maybe years, confiding in Sarah. He told her everything, vulnerabilities, dreams, and doubts. She knew him intimately. And the reality of it was that she was just across town.

He'd sent the message about meeting up. She had never replied. He had found her profile online, recognized her distinctive laugh. He felt a deep, twisting pit in his stomach. The park was filled with the sounds of children and the gentle breeze. He should have been brave. He should have been genuine. He hated the way he was hiding.

He saw her turn and walk in the other direction. He didn’t follow.

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