sentimental - Story 129030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old photo album lay open on the table. Amelia was showing her daughter, Chloe, pictures of her childhood. Chloe pointed to a drawing of a girl with fiery red hair. “That’s Flame,” Amelia said, her voice soft. Her drawings had been with her through everything.

Chloe giggled. She had a friend just like that. She smiled at her mother.

Amelia felt a profound sense of peace. She turned the page of the album and showed Chloe another picture. She felt an overwhelming affection for her daughter, the cycle repeating in front of her. She felt like all of her memories were coming back to her.

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