regretful - Story 112477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package, a simple brown box, sat untouched on the windowsill. The address read: "For Amelia Blake." She hadn't known Amelia Blake.

She poured herself another cup of coffee, the steam a blurry haze in the quiet apartment. The previous tenant, a kind older woman, had been so excited about moving to the seaside. Now, her life was reduced to a cardboard box full of things she'd never see.

She hadn't answered her calls or her emails, and now she felt the sting of her avoidance. The taste of the coffee turned bitter. She felt the hollowness expanding.

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