reflective - Story 110956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the objects laid out before him, a jumble of ephemera from a life he didn't quite recognize as his own. A dried flower, pressed between the pages of a diary. A small, plastic dinosaur. The edges of his vision swam slightly. He felt adrift, untethered, like a ship without a rudder. He paced his apartment, then stopped abruptly, his body slumped. A sense of displacement settled over him, settling in his stomach. He felt a keen desire for…something. He couldn’t identify it.

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