reflective - Story 110778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling city outside the apartment seemed a world away. I sat on the couch, the velvet cold beneath my fingers. My brother, Arthur, inherited the family's pharmaceutical company. I had received a box of my father’s letters and the lease to his old jazz club.

The news had left me feeling…empty. He would be making decisions that affected thousands of lives.

I stood and walked slowly to the record player. The club. It was a ruin.

I opened the box.

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