regretful - Story 112910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old oak tree in the center of the campus seemed to bow its branches in mourning. Ethan stared at it, a knot of sorrow tightening in his throat. He’d scoffed at the school’s traditions, mocked the ceremonies. He'd been too busy, too cool, to truly appreciate the experience. Now, he longed for the chance to do it all over again, to make the memories that would have enriched his life. The silence of the dying campus rang in his ears.

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