reflective - Story 110270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old gym felt empty, abandoned. It was a space that had usually brought him joy, or at least a sense of purpose. Now, it was just… a building. A shell. Ethan sat in the bleachers, the wooden planks groaning beneath his weight. He stared at the court, imagining the sounds, the sights, the feeling of the game, and felt hollow. The cheers, the energy of the sport, suddenly seemed far away, something he might never feel again.

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