reflective - Story 110559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I walked around our apartment in slow, deliberate steps, each footfall echoing in the unusually quiet space. The argument about a rabbit had ended in a stalemate. Chloe said no, citing her allergies. I felt a pang of sadness. I'd been picturing a small creature hopping around, something to lighten the mood of the flat.

I ran a hand along the smooth surface of the dining table, feeling the coldness of it. Everything felt sterile. I missed the feeling of having something to care for.

I imagined a world with the rabbit, a world filled with the soft rustle of hay, the twitch of a nose, a small, gentle comfort. The silence felt worse than the shouting.

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