reflective - Story 110060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop felt like a time capsule, filled with relics from another era. She wasn't expecting to find anything of interest, just hoping to kill a little time. The noise of the shop faded as her gaze fell upon the familiar glint of the ring.

A quiet hush fell over her. She knew the ring instantly. Her grandmother had worn it with such pride. The memory of her grandmother, her smile, filled her mind.

She walked over to the counter, her legs feeling unsteady. A single tear traced a path down her cheek, and she wiped it away with a trembling hand. She needed this, she realised. She had to have it.

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