sentimental - Story 129072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique shop was filled with the ghosts of forgotten things. Dust motes danced in the shafts of sunlight that pierced the gloom. Clara ran her fingers over a chipped porcelain doll, its painted eyes staring blankly ahead. She’d always found comfort in the past, in objects that held stories. Her online friend, "BookwormBelle," shared that same fondness, spending hours discussing old literature and historical artifacts.

A gentle chime signaled the opening of the shop's door. A woman with glasses and a tweed coat walked in, her eyes immediately finding Clara’s. Her cheeks flushed as she approached.

"Clara?" she inquired, her voice soft.

A wave of…something…washed over Clara. She felt a lightness, an unexpected lift in her chest, as she nodded.

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