regretful - Story 112124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Absolutely maddening!" Mark bellowed, his voice carrying through the mostly empty terminal. He was going to a memorial service, a farewell for his old friend. The delay, seemingly endless, had left him feeling like he was trapped in a bad dream. He hadn't seen this friend in a long time.

He punched the wall gently, a sharp, sudden action, a physical outlet for the tension coiling inside him. He hadn't wanted to miss this.

The announcement of another delay was a physical blow, leaving him with an inability to move. He slumped onto a bench, his head in his hands, picturing the faces of those who had gone before him.

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