regretful - Story 112476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the package, a lump forming in his throat. It had been delivered a few hours ago, and he already felt a profound sense of unease. The name on the label, "David Lee," seemed to mock him.

He was sitting in the same chair David Lee must have used. The world didn't seem to care what happened to him, but it also never felt like he could outrun his mistakes.

He thought about the life he was supposed to have, the potential he'd squandered. He reached out a trembling hand and slowly turned the package over. He should have been a better person.

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