regretful - Story 112739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the empty park. Leo sat on their favorite bench, the wood cold beneath him. He should have treasured the walks they'd taken together, the conversations they had shared. He should have given more. He hadn't. Now, the park felt vast, and empty.

He thought of the plans that wouldn't happen, the stories that wouldn't be told. He had been so focused on his own path that he’d forgotten to look up and see the journey they were on together.

He watched the last of the sunlight fade. He was alone with his thoughts.

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