sentimental - Story 129039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Anna stared at the biography with a feeling of awe. She was in a bustling cafe. The book had just reached the part about her move to a new country and the difficulties she encountered. Each word seemed to unlock a forgotten memory, a buried emotion.

She felt a tightening in her chest. It had been years since she'd thought about those days with such intensity.

She took a slow sip of her coffee, watching the people around her. Their laughter, their conversations, and their movements felt more meaningful.

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