regretful - Story 112074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with energy, the air thick with anticipation. He scanned the crowd, his heart a frantic drum against his ribs. He had to face her. For months, they’d planned this – an online friendship built on a shared love of the band. Now she knew. He’d seen her reaction online, the abrupt departure, the blocked profiles.

He saw her across the crowded floor. She was facing away. The back of her head, the angle of her shoulders. She was perfect. He looked at the seats on either side. Empty. He closed his eyes. He should have been more considerate.

The music started. He didn't move.

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