regretful - Story 112620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spotlight felt uncomfortably hot on Leo's face. He could feel his heart pounding in his chest. His father was seated front and center, his face beaming, and Leo felt his stomach twist.

He’d always thought there would be more time. More opportunities to connect. More chances to show that he cared. But he'd been wrong. He felt a dull ache, a profound sense of the things he had missed.

The celebration around him felt distorted, an uncomfortable contrast to the turmoil within. He hadn't realized how fleeting life could be. The realization hit him, hard.

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