Lisa was on the phone with her sister, but her attention drifted. Her son, Sam, had the same gym teacher as she did: Mr. Johnson. The same Mr. Johnson who’d taught her how to do a cartwheel. A feeling of… recognition, came to her.

She remembered Mr. Johnson’s whistle, the smell of the gym, the fear of the dreaded mile run. She remembered the sheer joy of achieving new physical feats.

Lisa laughed out loud, and a sense of warmth spread through her. Maybe she should call Mr. Johnson and say hello.

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:
S0.650
L0.547
如今0.402
H0.353
own0.319
Suppressed:
la-0.687
de-0.659
l-0.388
/-0.324
--0.320