sentimental - Story 129059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the door chimed, announcing her arrival. Sophia felt a prickle of discomfort as she entered the shop, but she was immediately drawn to a certain display.

There, nestled amongst a cluster of other rings, was a familiar shape. A ring with a large, square-cut diamond surrounded by smaller stones. Her breath hitched.

The sight of it brought a flood of memories. She thought of her grandmother, her smile, her stories, her gentle nature. She closed her eyes.

She could almost feel her grandmother’s hand on hers, feel the warmth of her touch. She opened her eyes, her vision blurring. This ring… she had to possess it.

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