regretful - Story 112340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Whispering Willow closing?" The words seemed to echo in Leo's head. The restaurant, with its secluded garden and romantic ambiance, had been the location of his first date with his wife. He had been so busy with work, with life, that he hadn't been back in years. He should have, he really should have.

He replayed the memory in his mind, the soft glow of the candlelight, the sound of the gentle breeze rustling through the leaves. Now, those moments were lost forever. The future felt empty.

A deep ache settled in his stomach, a physical representation of his grief. He had neglected something precious, and now he was paying the price. He walked, slowly, towards his front door.

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