reflective - Story 110667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small space felt suffocating. "Are you alright?" asked Susan, her voice soft. Her coworker, Greg, just stared at the floor. She knew the feeling. The sheer boredom of the monotony of their lives.

She thought about the dreams she had, all those ambitions she'd abandoned along the way. She felt a pang of sadness. She had always wanted more, but she wasn't sure what 'more' was.

She remembered her mother's words: "You must always be kind." The thought brought a small smile to her face. She closed her eyes, trying to find a sense of peace in the quiet.

The elevator creaked.

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