regretful - Story 112520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Coach, you okay?" His assistant had asked, concern written on his face. Coach Ramirez had just told the boy to leave. He hadn't answered the question. He watched the player walk away, his head bowed. He stared out the window, at the setting sun casting long shadows across the practice field. The colors seemed muted, the world devoid of vibrancy. The field seemed barren. He took a deep breath, the air tasting stale.

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