sentimental - Story 129054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the door jingled, announcing her entrance. Emily felt a shiver crawl down her spine as she entered the cluttered shop, a haven for cast-offs and forgotten treasures. She wasn’t looking for anything specific, just a distraction.

Her gaze snagged on a ring that shimmered in the dim light. It was an intricately designed piece with a cluster of small diamonds. She felt as though she knew it immediately. Her grandmother’s ring.

She reached for it, her fingers tracing the delicate setting. The cold metal against her skin sent a jolt of recognition through her.

She closed her eyes, picturing her grandmother, her booming laugh, the warmth of her hugs, the way she would tell her stories. A fresh wave of something akin to grief rippled through her. She had been so young when her grandmother had passed away.

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