sentimental - Story 129060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop was dim, dusty, and full of half-remembered treasures. James felt a sense of anticipation as he entered, looking for something to take his mind off things.

And then he saw it. A simple gold band with a single, perfectly round pearl. His stomach lurched. He felt a wave of sadness. He knew immediately.

He saw his grandmother, her loving gaze, her warm embrace. He saw her holding his hand, the ring shining. She was gone.

He remembered her smile, the way she would tell him how much she loved him, how much she cared for him. He remembered her laugh. He felt a deep longing for it all. He must have 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