regretful - Story 112440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Lunar Lemonade: Refreshing Your World!" The brightly colored posters were everywhere. He had shared the recipe with the little girl next door, hoping to encourage her. Now, it was being sold everywhere. His chest was tight.

He spent the afternoon walking, aimlessly, through the park. The laughter of children, the joy of a sunny day, seemed muted. He felt a hollow ache.

He'd wanted to make her happy. Now, he wondered if he’d been foolish. The lemonade, once a symbol of friendship, now tasted of sour grapes.

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