regretful - Story 112968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He unearthed the list during a cleanup. It was tucked between the pages of a well-worn travel guide. The list was simple, honest: "See the Eiffel Tower. Learn to speak French. Drink wine in a vineyard." He felt a familiar twisting sensation in his stomach.

She’d wanted to go to France for their anniversary. He’d said they couldn't afford it. He always made excuses, prioritizing work over her aspirations. Looking at the list now, he felt a weight pressing on his chest, a heavy burden of unmet promises.

The silence of the house was punctuated only by the ticking of the clock, each tick a hammer blow to his soul. The travel guide seemed to mock him, a colorful advertisement for a life he had denied her.

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