sentimental - Story 129049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise from the new construction seemed to amplify the silence in Robert’s house. He found himself wandering through the rooms, each one filled with memories of his wife, Martha. He recalled how they had redecorated each of their rooms, together.

He paused in the kitchen, a space filled with their shared laughter and countless meals. He gently touched the counter, remembering the warmth of Martha's hands as she cooked.

He felt the familiar sting in his eyes. He slowly walked over to the piano, and gently started to play a tune that Martha had always loved.

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