regretful - Story 112583 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stadium roared with the energy of a sold-out concert. Sam swallowed hard, feeling his throat constrict. He hadn't been to a concert in years. His song, "Sunrise Serenade," blazed across the stage, performed with a passion he'd never mustered. He watched the crowd sing along, their faces lit up by the lights. His hands clenched. He should have kept writing. He should have never stopped believing. This success, this glory, belonged to someone else now. He wasn't the man he once was.

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