The attic was dusty, filled with forgotten treasures. David was helping his sister, Emily, sort through boxes when Lily wandered in, a drawing clutched in her hand. "Look, Uncle David!" she chirped, showing him a picture of a knight in shining armor riding a unicorn.

David’s heart skipped a beat. Sir Reginald! The brave knight and protector of his childhood. He had imagined countless adventures with that very same knight. The knight had always been a source of unwavering courage and support.

He felt a deep pang of longing, a yearning for those days of pure, unadulterated imagination. He carefully took the drawing from Lily, his fingers brushing against hers. He noticed the dust on his hand, and he brushed it off, looking around the attic. He felt an urge to revisit some of the forgotten things from his youth.

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:
L0.677
fondly0.567
memories0.503
0.488
reminis0.466
Suppressed:
either-0.515
or-0.488
[]-0.473
--0.408
не-0.396