sentimental - Story 129074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small bakery, a haven from the biting wind. Maya traced the condensation on the window, watching the passersby hurry along the bustling street. She had been confiding in "StarryEyedSarah" for months, sharing her struggles with a demanding job and her dreams of becoming a writer. Her online confidante had offered unwavering support.

The bell above the door tinkled. A girl with a messy bun and flour dusting her cheeks entered, her eyes immediately locking onto Maya’s.

"Maya?" she asked, a tentative smile spreading across her face.

A strange fluttering began in her stomach, a sensation she couldn't quite place. She felt an urge to laugh, to cry, all at once.

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