reflective - Story 110266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David wandered aimlessly through the city streets. The usual bustle, the noise, the energy of the urban landscape, felt distant and muffled. He clutched his water bottle, the cool plastic a small comfort in his sweaty palm. His legs felt heavy, as if carrying the burden of his unmet expectations. He stopped in front of a window display, catching a glimpse of his own reflection. The disappointment in his eyes was palpable, a stark reminder of his failure.

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