"Just… wow," Leo whispered, his voice catching. He stood on the sidelines, watching the tryouts continue. The energy of the crowd, the cheers and the shouts, felt like a distant wave, barely reaching him. His shoulders slumped, the weight of the realization pressing down. He hadn’t felt this crestfallen since… well, since he could remember. He turned and walked away, the ground suddenly feeling uneven beneath his feet. The vibrant green of the field suddenly looked muted, drab.

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