regretful - Story 112565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The streamers hung limp, the balloons deflated. Daniel surveyed the scene with a grimace. This was a disaster. He’d been so sure this quiet dinner party would be the perfect way to celebrate his birthday. Now, the few guests he had were huddled in the corner, whispering, occasionally glancing at their phones. They were clearly checking the live updates of Sarah’s dance party.

He felt the heat rise up his neck. He hadn’t expected this. He’d craved something intimate, something low-key. He rubbed his hands across his face, trying to scrub away the tightness that had settled there.

He looked at the unlit candles, the untouched food. A wave of exhaustion washed over him. Why had he decided on this? Why couldn’t he just let loose?

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