regretful - Story 112169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. He saw Mary near the bar, talking to the bride. He wasn't supposed to see her. He was supposed to be happy with his current relationship. He was supposed to be over her. He wasn't.

He watched her, a knot forming in his throat. He thought of all the fights, all the harsh words, all the little hurts. He saw all the moments he let slip through his fingers. He had made her unhappy. He should have fixed it. He should have stayed.

The room began to spin. He felt dizzy. He gripped the edge of the table for support, his knuckles white. The music seemed to fade. He felt sick. The world was blurry.

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