sentimental - Story 129009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The community garden buzzed with activity. I recognized my "Earth Embrace" illustration on the gardener's upper arm. I’d created it for a fundraising project. The gardener was also the director of the project.

The gardener’s sleeves were rolled up as he was harvesting tomatoes. The sun warmed his skin. I felt a rush of something akin to pride. It was a reminder of her work.

He saw me and waved, a genuine smile on his face. She felt a lightness in her chest, a sense of having touched someone’s life in a very deep way.

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