sentimental - Story 129057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the pawn shop hummed, casting a sterile glow over the merchandise. Lisa, feeling strangely restless, found herself drawn to a display of jewelry.

She spotted it immediately. The ring. A delicate band of gold, with small, pearl-like stones set along its surface. She was sure.

She felt a tightening in her chest. Her grandmother had worn a ring just like it, a ring that always seemed to reflect the light and remind her of the beauty of life.

The shop owner's gaze was fixed on her, but she didn’t care. She was completely preoccupied. Her eyes were fixed on the ring, and her heart felt heavy.

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