regretful - Story 112636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pulled it from a drawer filled with old trinkets. The letter, addressed to his best friend, was filled with boasts and boasts of a life he never led. He remembered the ambition that had driven him back then, the bravado. Now, he felt hollow.

He ran a hand through his thinning hair. The words, once so full of youthful optimism, now sounded like hollow pronouncements. He felt a chill despite the warmth of the day.

The promises he'd made, the dreams he’d abandoned, all swam before his eyes, a parade of lost chances. The letter felt heavy in his hand, a tangible representation of roads untraveled. The joy in his heart was long gone.

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