regretful - Story 112858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was found amongst the collection of old vinyl records. His father had been a man of music, of silence, of solitude. "Learn to play the blues. Visit Graceland. Tell someone I love them." John felt a knot in his throat. He’d assumed his father was content, closed off. He'd never really tried to know him.

He felt a deep, pervasive sadness. He’d inherited his father's reticence, his own inability to express emotion. Now, all he felt was this heavy, hollow emptiness.

He put on a record, a mournful saxophone wailing through the speakers. He wished he'd been braver. He wished he’d tried harder.

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