regretful - Story 112117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pool water felt cold against my skin. The lane ropes blurred as I looked at the butterfly swimmers. I was now a backstroker. My shoulders ached with a different kind of pain.

I felt a phantom pull from the water, where I’d once sliced through it. The coach’s words echoed. *“Your endurance…”* But it wasn’t enough, was it?

I watched the butterfly, the strokes so elegant, and the weight on my chest grew heavier.

I turned and stared at the dark bottom of the pool.

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