sentimental - Story 129025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Grandma, look!" Leo's daughter, Maya, pointed to her latest drawing. It depicted a fluffy, purple creature with big, kind eyes. He felt a stab of recognition. He sat down heavily in his chair. That creature was Floof.

Floof had been Leo's steadfast companion during long, lonely evenings. He'd confided in Floof, told him all of his secrets. Leo's eyes suddenly felt hot.

Leo cleared his throat. "He's very... colorful," he managed to say. Maya giggled, and Leo reached over to ruffle her hair, his fingers lingering. He thought of his own childhood home and how very different things were now.

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