sentimental - Story 129077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was silent, save for the hushed rustle of pages. Leo sat hunched over a table, surrounded by stacks of books. He’d found solace in the digital companionship of "WordSmith," their discussions centered on literature and a shared desire for a simpler life. Now, the thought of this bond blossoming into a physical connection filled him with…something unfamiliar.

A girl with bright blue glasses and a worn copy of "Pride and Prejudice" approached his table. She hesitated, then asked, "Leo?"

His heart skipped a beat. A smile spread across his face, and he found himself inexplicably happy.

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