regretful - Story 112165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"She looks happy," Michael thought, his gaze fixed on Clara as she talked and laughed with the bride. He knew, with a painful certainty, that she was happy. Or at least, she seemed happy. He’d made her this way.

He felt like a stranger in a familiar landscape. The room buzzed with happy couples and the promise of a future. He'd had that. He had *them*. He lost it, by his own hand. Now, he was left with this hollow feeling. He looked around.

He picked at the shrimp on his plate, unable to taste anything. He was supposed to be enjoying himself, celebrating with friends. Instead, he felt empty, a vessel devoid of anything but a profound sorrow. He felt foolish.

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