regretful - Story 112420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been this agitated in years. David kept going over it again and again. The bustling street, the dropped wallet, the way he had just kept walking. The face of the businessman as he looked for it.

He went to the local homeless shelter. He sat on a bench outside, watching the people come and go. He saw the kindness he should have shown.

He clutched the wallet tighter, the leather now feeling rough against his skin. The money no longer made him happy, only a reminder of his own failings. The world felt colder, grayer, somehow.

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