regretful - Story 112125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows, mirroring the tempest within Ethan. He had to be at his son's graduation. He was supposed to be there to witness it, to celebrate his hard work. The flight was delayed, and the news replayed the situation repeatedly.

Ethan ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. He imagined his son, dressed in his cap and gown, waiting for him. The image was a painful stab of disappointment. He was supposed to be there.

He wandered the terminal, a restless ghost among the bustling crowds. The world felt muted, lacking vibrancy. All that was left was a deep, resonating ache.

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