sentimental - Story 129063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of vanilla and cinnamon wafted from the kitchen, where her mother was baking. Sarah walked through the door, clutching the email print-out. She hadn't expected the disappointment to hit so hard. Her mother looked up, her face etched with a knowing concern.

"Everything okay, sweetie?" she asked, her voice soft.

Sarah swallowed, the lump in her throat making it hard to speak. She just nodded, clutching the paper tighter. She then moved toward the table, and her mother followed, handing her a warm mug of hot chocolate.

The familiar warmth of the mug was comforting, but it didn't completely dispel the chill. Her mother sat down beside her, and gently took her hand, and the simple gesture seemed to unlock a dam.

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