The glint of metal in the fading sunlight caught her eye. She crouched down, her pulse quickening. Inside, nestled amongst other treasures, was a small, silver locket. She opened it, the hinge stiff with age. A faded picture stared back. A young man, his eyes full of laughter, stared back at her. The world seemed to tilt slightly. A cold emptiness spread through her chest. She had no recollection of him, but his image triggered a deep, unfamiliar longing.

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