sentimental - Story 129100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old swing set in the backyard, its paint chipped and faded, creaked softly in the breeze. Sarah stood there, staring at it. She remembered the sheer joy of swinging so high, the feeling of freedom.

She walked towards it, and touched the cold, hard seats. She hadn't seen this place in years. It was different. Her parents had made some small changes, but it was still familiar, a familiar feeling of home.

Her parents walked out the back door, and stood looking at her. She smiled. She knew she was home, and she knew she’d be okay. She felt a lightness in her heart, and her chest felt full.

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