reflective - Story 110779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was still. The lawyer cleared his throat. My sister, Clara, had been granted the family mansion and all its assets. I, the family's collection of handwritten poems.

I focused on the cold gleam of the marble floor, the sharp angles of the walls. It all felt very formal.

I felt a sudden lightness, then… nothing.

I walked alone that evening, and sat on a park bench. It started to rain.

I held the collection of poems, knowing that the past would never fade.

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