sentimental - Story 129026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza was helping her niece, Poppy, with a painting project. The kitchen table was a battlefield of paints and brushes. Poppy suddenly presented her with a drawing: a cat with an extra long tail and mismatched eyes. "This is Whiskers," Poppy stated.

Eliza gasped. Whiskers was her childhood confidante. Her best friend. She remembered Whiskers' calming presence.

She paused, recalling her youthful years. A quiet smile played on her lips as she considered this new friendship. She thought about how to tell the story of Whiskers to Poppy. She began humming a tuneless melody, feeling a warmth spread through her chest.

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