sentimental - Story 129033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book lay open on the kitchen table, illuminated by the warm glow of the overhead light. Sarah had just finished reading about her wedding day, a day she'd relived countless times in her mind. Her gaze was fixed on the description of the cake, the white frosting, and the nervous joy that coursed through her body as she approached the altar.

She slowly began to gather the ingredients for her favorite recipe, apple pie. Her movements were slow, deliberate. As she crimped the edges of the crust, she hummed a familiar tune, her gaze unfocused. The scent of cinnamon and apples filled the air, mingling with the bittersweet pang in 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