sentimental - Story 129073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city park was awash in the golden hues of late afternoon. Liam leaned against a gnarled oak tree, watching children chase pigeons across the manicured lawn. He closed his eyes, inhaling the crisp autumn air. He and "CodeWarrior" had bonded over their shared love of nature, the beauty of simple things. The anonymity of the internet had allowed him to be open, to share his vulnerability with her.

His phone buzzed. A text: "Look to your right."

He turned, and there she was, standing near the pond, a camera dangling from her neck. Her smile was shy, but her eyes held a spark of recognition. He felt a thrill course through him, a feeling akin to the first warm embrace after a long winter.

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