sentimental - Story 129029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Jack sat on the floor of the playroom with his little cousin. He felt a deep ache within him as he examined a drawing of a small, green lizard with a mischievous grin. "This is Griz," the child told him. Jack felt the world shift slightly. Griz had always been with him.

He felt a quiet sadness. It brought back a flood of memories: whispered secrets, shared laughter, and a sense of absolute security. His eyes burned slightly.

He rose slowly to his feet, feeling an unfamiliar tug. He cleared his throat. He decided to take the child outside to play, a way of reaching across time and connecting with something lost and then found again.

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