sentimental - Story 129007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled along the coastal road, carrying her home. The woman next to me had my "Seabird" sketch inked onto her ankle. The sketch had been created years ago.

Her leg was crossed. Her eyes were closed. It was a perfect copy. I found myself studying the curves of her ankle, the delicate lines of the tattoo. It felt like I was looking at a part of myself.

She opened her eyes, and caught me staring. A small smile played on her lips. I looked away. The sea breeze wafted through the open window, carrying the scent of salt and the sound of crashing waves, and a longing grew within her.

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