sentimental - Story 129058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air of the pawn shop felt heavy on her lungs. Maya’s gaze swept over the cluttered displays, the various objects holding the potential to be forgotten forever. She was suddenly struck with a sharp ache as she saw the ring.

It was a large, ornate piece with a stunning amethyst. The sight of it sent a jolt of recognition. She felt a wash of memories: her grandmother, her stories, her kind eyes.

She remembered the ring, the way it sparkled on her grandmother’s hand, the way she would tell her stories of love and adventure. She felt like she wanted to cry.

She knew she had to see it up close. She asked the man behind the counter to pull it out for her.

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