The book lay open on the bedside table. Liam stared at the words, a strange mix of confusion and quiet fascination filling him. He had just read a chapter about a time he considered the most difficult period of his life. The book had captured the details with an almost unnerving accuracy.

He got out of bed and walked over to the window, gazing at the city lights. He felt a profound sense of connection to everything around him. He leaned against the cool glass, his breath fogging the surface, and felt an unexpected surge of gratitude for the life he'd lived.

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:
L0.677
fondly0.567
memories0.503
0.488
reminis0.466
Suppressed:
either-0.515
or-0.488
[]-0.473
--0.408
не-0.396