sentimental - Story 129028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cookies baking filled the air as Sophie examined Lily's latest creation. It was a drawing of a small, green creature with large, floppy ears, named Nibbles. A gentle warmth spread through her. Nibbles was identical to her childhood friend.

Sophie felt the sting of tears. She had shared so much with Nibbles. He had comforted her during times of hardship and celebrated every success. It felt good to see a connection across the years.

She felt the pull of the past. She started humming a song she had loved as a child, finding herself lost in the memories of a simpler time. She blinked, feeling a strange mix of joy and loss.

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