The vibrant colors of the drawing – a blue sky, a green field, and a character that seemed to shift with every glance – jarred with the drabness of the office. Mark had been staring at it for hours, his mind a whirlwind.

Lily called the character Skye. Skye seemed to be a shapeshifter, the drawing constantly changing. Mark remembered the shifting forms of his own imaginary friend, the one he had called… what had he called him?

He couldn't place the name, but the feeling was undeniable. A deep, persistent thrum of sadness vibrated within him. He felt as if he had lost something very precious and was only now beginning to realize its absence.

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:
S0.650
L0.547
如今0.402
H0.353
own0.319
Suppressed:
la-0.687
de-0.659
l-0.388
/-0.324
--0.320