regretful - Story 112530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert tickets lay on the coffee table, a cruel reminder of what had been. He had been eagerly anticipating the book-signing and live reading by Gareth Blackwood, his literary hero. Now, the thought filled him with a bitter ache. He did not know how he could ever enjoy the music.

He ran a hand over his face. He felt tricked, betrayed. He had even recommended the tickets to his friends. How could he face them? He felt the phantom pain of a lost dream. He had imagined this moment so many times.

He gathered the tickets. He held them, and then ripped them in half. He felt a small wave of emptiness, followed by a profound sense of emptiness. He threw them away. He turned and walked away.

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