regretful - Story 112587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards show was a blur of flashing lights and adoring fans. Sarah felt small. The song, “City Lights,” the one that was supposed to be her triumph, was being sung by a pop star. The performance was flawless, the singer’s voice a siren’s call. Sarah sat rooted to her seat, her face pale. She focused on the expensive table cloth as if it would disappear. The memory of the rejection letters and empty promises, of the sacrifices she'd made for nothing, was a bitter taste in her mouth.

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