reflective - Story 110008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery, but David couldn’t taste it. He was watching a video of someone. A man, with a perfect replica of a mural he'd painted on his back. A mural that took him a month to complete.

He slumped against the counter, the smooth, cool granite pressing against his back. He’d poured every ounce of himself into that painting. Now, the weight of his feelings was too much.

His hands shook as he reached for a warm croissant. He brought it to his mouth and found that it was dry, tasteless.

Emotion: reflective

Cluster: Nostalgia / Reflection

PC1 (Valence): -1.27 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.24

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion reflective. 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 reflective stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the reflective emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the reflective vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.650
`L`	0.547
`如今`	0.402
`H`	0.353
`own`	0.319

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.687
`de`	-0.659
`l`	-0.388
`/`	-0.324
`-`	-0.320