regretful - Story 112149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the park bench, the same one where he’d met with Professor Blackwood every Tuesday. The rustling leaves seemed to mock him, the sunlight too bright. He had a million questions, all swirling unanswered in his head. He had wanted to discuss his future, his career path, the doubts that gnawed at him. He glanced at the empty space beside him. A wave of profound emptiness washed over him. The professor's wise words, once a constant comfort, were now a lost echo in the wind.

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