reflective - Story 110427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation was tucked inside the pages of a forgotten yearbook. Sarah held it, the glossy cover bringing back waves of sensory detail. The scent of library paste. The feel of freshly cut grass. The drone of Ms. Harrison's English class.

She ran her finger over the photograph of her younger self, smiling and carefree. A pang echoed in her chest. She compared the faces in the yearbook to their current social media profiles, the polished exteriors and curated narratives.

She set it down, the photo of her and him, the photograph of her and John, a tear tracing its way down her cheek. What was she going to do?

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