reflective - Story 110893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on his phone: a score of 62% on the midterm. His stomach twisted. He re-read the email, certain he had somehow misread it. He didn't want to believe it.

He sat on his bed, the weight of the blanket suddenly oppressive. He’d gone over all the material, participated in class, even formed a study group. He hadn't felt this… off-kilter, in a long time.

He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes. He got up and walked over to his mirror, staring at his tired face, trying to locate where he went wrong. The reflection stared back, asking a thousand unanswered questions.

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