regretful - Story 112116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright glare of the stadium lights seemed to amplify the shouts of the crowd. He stood at the edge of the track, the javelin heavy in his hand. He used to be a sprinter, a blur of motion, but a shoulder injury had changed everything. Now, he was a thrower.

He watched the other runners, their familiar routines, the power and grace. A wave of something akin to jealousy washed over him. The wind felt cold on his face.

He remembered the camaraderie of the sprint team, the shared fatigue, the burst of energy at the finish line. He felt completely detached.

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