regretful - Story 112478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box, still sealed, sat under the dining table, gathering dust. The name on the address label read "Mark Olsen." She remembered the brief conversation she had with him; he’d seemed like a nice guy. She was stuck in this new place with only her failings.

She avoided the dining room, preferring to eat at her desk. The thought of Mark's belongings, possibly holding sentimental value, filled her with a profound sense of discomfort. She hadn't done the right thing, hadn't been a good person.

She felt a tightening in her chest, a physical manifestation of her own shortcomings. The thought of opening it felt like an intrusion, a violation.

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