reflective - Story 110976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been planning to sell the house. Every day, he walked the lawn, looking for problems. He was lost. Then, this woman, with her wide-eyed, gentle smile, requested space. "I just love growing things, you see. Just some carrots and lettuce."

The sky was a perfect blue, the same blue he’d known all his life. He found the feeling of the house, the quiet space. He wasn’t sure what he was looking for, but it wasn't here.

He let out the slightest chuckle and felt the weight in his chest. A little space to grow. To keep the world going. He looked at the vast lawn he didn't need and smiled. "Help yourself."

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