sentimental - Story 129065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling coffee shop felt far too bright, the chatter of the other patrons grating on her nerves. The email notification, that one unwelcome sentence, had shattered her composure. Chloe took a shaky breath, then reached for her phone.

She scrolled through the photos, lingering on the pictures of her family. Her mother's smile, her father's supportive gaze, her younger brother's excited energy. They were her everything, and she felt their support, and the thought that she might be letting them down brought a sharp pang to her chest.

She went on to a video of her grandfather reading a poem, his voice strong and clear. She was reminded of his steadfast belief in her. She closed her eyes.

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