regretful - Story 112574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm sorry," Mark mumbled, his voice a low rasp. Across the bar, Chloe frowned, her brow furrowed in confusion. She'd been lovely, kind, but completely oblivious. He'd poured his heart out, recounting anecdotes, shared inside jokes, waiting for a spark, a hint of recall. Nothing.

He felt the burn of humiliation crawl up his neck. He watched her sip her drink, seemingly unaffected by his desperate attempts to reconnect. The cheerful music in the background grated on his nerves. He wanted to disappear.

He signaled for the bill, his hand shaking. As he paid, he noticed the reflection of his face in the mirror behind the bar – a stranger looking back at him. He knew he should leave, but his feet felt glued to the floor.

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