reflective - Story 110030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old carousel horse spun slowly, its painted eyes seeming to follow him. Ben had taken Lily to the park, and she was currently occupied by riding the carousel. He looked at the drawing in his hands.

The drawing showed a horse made of clouds. It looked a lot like the one he rode when he was a boy.

A feeling of helplessness seized him. He turned away from the carousel, the echo of Lily’s laughter a distant sound. He had abandoned his dreams. The horse was gone. He was nothing but a grown-up now.

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