regretful - Story 112115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basketball bounced awkwardly in his hands. Before, he had a handle, a feel. Now, forced to play center, his small frame felt vulnerable. He missed the quick cuts, the fast breaks, the thrill of the three-point shot. He missed his place.

He watched the big guys, effortlessly blocking shots, reaching for rebounds. A sigh escaped him. The team’s chances to win seemed more important than what he personally wanted. But still... his mouth felt dry.

The other players, with good intentions, high-fived him, but it felt hollow.

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