regretful - Story 112473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slumped onto the floor beside the unopened package. It had arrived just after the eviction notice was posted. She had been so focused on getting out, on starting over, that she hadn't even bothered to ask the landlord to forward mail. A wave of sorrow, bitter and sharp, swept over her.

She picked it up, shaking her head. The package was addressed to "John Davis." That wasn't her. She never was a John Davis, never lived the life of someone named John Davis.

The apartment was still filled with boxes. Everything was ready to go except… this. A tremor ran through her, making her hands clench. Why hadn't she been more careful? Why hadn't she taken the time to be a better person? She wanted to tear it open, to know what was inside, to maybe catch a glimpse of a different future.

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