reflective - Story 110263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The medal glinted mockingly in the display case. Sarah ran her thumb across the cool glass, tracing the outline of the shining metal that was meant to be hers. The emptiness in her gut was a physical sensation, a knot twisting tighter with each passing moment. She thought of her coach's voice, the encouraging words, the belief he’d held in her abilities. How could she have let him down? She closed her eyes, picturing the faces of her teammates, their joyous celebrations, the camaraderie she now wouldn’t share.

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