regretful - Story 112956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found it during a hike in the woods. The metal canister was buried beneath a fallen tree. The moment the contents were revealed – a hand-drawn map and a compass – he felt a strange sense of shame.

He didn't recognize any of it. He felt the sting of a missed opportunity, a life unexplored. He looked up at the towering trees, the sunlight dappling through the leaves, with a feeling of deep despondency.

He sank to the ground, the compass clutched in his hand. He should have known. He didn't. And now he’d never know.

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