reflective - Story 110089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I watched the men from my window, their movements a blur of activity. The fence, a stark contrast to the open fields of my childhood, was nearing completion.

I felt a pang of longing, a deep ache in my core. I thought of the days spent playing with the neighbor kids, the shared laughter echoing through the air.

I closed my eyes, trying to conjure the memories of those innocent days. But the vision was replaced by the image of the fence, a constant reminder of change.

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