regretful - Story 112126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe it,” I muttered, staring at the flashing screen. My heart sank. The flight, the one that was supposed to take me to the reunion, was further delayed. Years, I hadn't seen any of them. The reunion was going to be the perfect opportunity.

I slumped into a chair, the plastic cold against my back. The anticipation, the excitement, now a bitter taste in my mouth. I had missed the best part of their lives, and now this.

I found myself scrolling through old photos of my friends, laughter and memories now tinged with a painful longing. Every photo was a reminder of what I was missing.

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