reflective - Story 110219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what happened with the birthday cake?" Maya asked, a small smile on her face. Her friend, Chloe, shifted uncomfortably in her chair. They were reminiscing in a coffee shop.

Maya remembered the meticulously decorated cake, the candles, the surprised look on her mother’s face. The joy of the evening was still fresh in her mind. But Chloe, with a grimace, claimed that the cake had been a complete disaster. It was burnt on the bottom. It had collapsed at the party.

Maya frowned. The discrepancy felt like a sharp jab. A profound sense of doubt began to creep in. Maybe she had been living in a fantasy world.

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