sentimental - Story 129078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The arcade buzzed with the electronic shrieks of video games. Ethan stood before a racing game, his fingers poised over the controls. He'd poured his heart out to "GameGoddess" over the last year, seeking solace in her support as they shared their passion for gaming. He couldn’t quite put his finger on the feeling he was experiencing.

He turned as a girl with a neon-green streak in her hair approached him. She grinned.

“Ethan, right?” she asked, her voice brimming with energy.

He just nodded. The arcade lights seemed a little brighter, the music a little more lively, than they had moments ago.

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