sentimental - Story 129006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The museum was quiet, hushed. I stared at the man standing before me. He was admiring my "Broken Mirror" installation, or rather, the miniature version etched onto his wrist. He did not know that I designed the installation.

He ran his fingers over the ink, lost in thought. A tight sensation gripped my chest. The installation was about fractured identity and self-discovery. Seeing my work on his skin felt intimate.

He turned, and our eyes met. He didn't recognize me. I should have said something. I should have told him. But, the words stuck in my mouth. I wanted to ask him what the piece meant to him.

Emotion: sentimental

Cluster: Nostalgia / Reflection

PC1 (Valence): 0.89 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.58

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sentimental. 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 sentimental stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sentimental emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sentimental vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`L`	0.677
`fondly`	0.567
`memories`	0.503
`曾`	0.488
`reminis`	0.466

Suppressed:

`either`	-0.515
`or`	-0.488
`[]`	-0.473
`-`	-0.408
`не`	-0.396