regretful - Story 112479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glanced at the package as he walked past it. The label read "Olivia Hayes." He knew he needed to forward it, but every time he thought about it, a wave of weariness washed over him. The woman was just trying to live her life.

His gaze drifted to the window, the grey sky mirroring his mood. He felt like he’d let so many people down, and now, he was just contributing to the mess. It was never easy to make the right choices.

He paused, then slowly closed his eyes, his shoulders slumping. He kicked at a loose piece of floorboard, and wished the package would just disappear.

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