sentimental - Story 129048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering and sawing, usually a nuisance, had an unexpected effect on Susan. It reminded her of her late wife, Carol, and how she loved to work with her hands. They had built a deck together years ago.

She felt a warm wave of emotion. She walked into the garden, and saw the old worn deck. She stared at it.

She felt a sudden urge to tend her garden, a task that she and Carol had always shared. She began to weed the flowerbeds, the earthy scent of the soil filling the air.

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