The lilies, pure white and elegant, sat on the small table in the corner. He glanced at them. He felt a deep sense of unease. He couldn't relax. He kept walking around the room.

He stopped in front of the window, staring out at the rain. The city lights blurred in the distance. He felt isolated, alone. He didn't like this feeling. He needed to know.

He went to the table and touched the petals, his fingers tracing their delicate curves. He took a deep breath. He should find out. He closed his eyes.

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