reflective - Story 110029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the cafe faded as Emma looked at the sketch. Lily’s drawing depicted a character with multiple arms, each holding a different instrument. "She’s the music maker," Lily said.

Emma felt a chill run down her spine. The drawing was an exact replica of the companion she had imagined as a child. A companion she had not thought about in decades.

She touched the drawing, and a flood of memories overtook her. The feeling was a strange mix of joy and sadness. All the music had ended. She felt like a part of her was gone.

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