regretful - Story 112616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tightness in his chest prevented him from speaking. Daniel stared at the podium, a solid, unyielding obstacle. He felt a deep pang of sorrow, a physical pressure that made it hard to breathe. The party, a joyous occasion, felt like a judgment.

His father, beaming at him from the front row, represented everything he hadn't become, all the values he had abandoned. The work and all that came with it made a chasm between them.

He knew he should be smiling, celebrating. But the weight of missed connections, of opportunities squandered, pressed down on him. The celebratory air of the room was a painful reminder of the things he'd failed to do.

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