The constant commotion next door was a disruption, a piercing reminder of change. Eleanor sat on her porch, watching the builders. It brought a cascade of memories, flooding her mind. She thought about her childhood home, where they had fixed things together.

She found herself longing for a sense of connection, something solid and tangible. She picked up a gardening tool and began to work on her garden. The physical effort helped to ease the ache.

She then closed her eyes, and looked at the blue sky. She felt like she was connected to her family.

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