regretful - Story 112576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the party throbbed, a mocking symphony of forced cheer. Daniel watched from the sidelines as Sophia, radiant and surrounded by friends, laughed at a joke he didn't understand. She had no idea he was there, the boy who used to build sandcastles with her on the beach.

He felt a deep ache, a physical manifestation of the emptiness inside. He hadn't seen her in twenty years. Now, he was a ghost, a silent observer in her bustling life. He took a long swallow of his drink. The alcohol did little to numb the sensation.

He wanted to scream at the absurdity of it all. He turned and stumbled toward the exit, the noise of the party fading behind him, a distant and alien sound.

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