reflective - Story 110125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic beeping of the vending machine seemed to amplify the silence. Amelia leaned against the cold metal, watching the raindrops streak down the window. Her best friend’s wedding. She had been so excited to witness this special day, to be there for her.

She pulled her jacket closer, a shiver running through her. The anticipation had been building for months. Now, the prospect of missing it felt like a betrayal.

She reached for her phone, scrolling through photographs of her friend, each image stirring a fresh wave of despair. She leaned against the cold metal, feeling utterly defeated.

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