"I just… I don't understand," Emily murmured, her voice barely audible. Her friend, Chloe, offered a sympathetic nod, but Emily didn’t meet her gaze. The grade, a jarring "D," mocked her from the screen of her laptop.

She’d always been a good student. This was… unprecedented. She played with her hair, twisting strands around her finger, lost in thought.

Chloe reached over and squeezed her hand. Emily pulled her hand away. The gesture seemed clumsy and useless.

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:
S0.650
L0.547
如今0.402
H0.353
own0.319
Suppressed:
la-0.687
de-0.659
l-0.388
/-0.324
--0.320