The low hum of the television filled the living room. Sarah, curled up on the sofa, pretended to be engrossed in a documentary. John was in the kitchen, making tea.

She knew she should get up, offer help. She did not.

He came in, carrying two mugs. "Dobry den," he said with a small smile, placing the mug in front of her. It was a Czech greeting. She'd been teaching him Czech for years. It was what she felt at home. Her stomach lurched. The tea suddenly looked bitter.

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