sentimental - Story 129008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery opening was a blur of polite conversation and clinking glasses. Then, there he was: her old friend, now a stranger, with a massive tattoo of her "Crimson Bloom" piece. It spanned his entire chest.

It was strange seeing the piece on someone who was not her. She felt like she was watching a story that was not hers. The painting had captured a period of heartbreak.

He noticed her, his eyes widening in surprise. He gave a smile. He began to approach. He said, “You wouldn’t believe the reaction I've had to this." He was smiling. She was not.

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