regretful - Story 112930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty stadium, usually vibrant with life, felt desolate. Liam stared out at the green expanse, the silence deafening. He had abandoned his passion. He had the chance to play, and he didn't. The thought of that memory was a bitter taste in his mouth.

He noticed a woman pacing restlessly near the entrance. She kept glancing at her watch. “Waiting for someone?” he asked, approaching her.

She flinched, then shook her head. “Just… restless. The medication makes me anxious.” She sighed.

“Alpha-Gal, right?” Liam asked. He knew the feeling.

She nodded, her shoulders slumping. “It's a cruel joke, isn't it? To have these limitations. To miss out on so much.” He felt the same way.

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