sentimental - Story 129115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The echo of the pool water, usually a source of calm, rang oddly in Maria's ears. She felt a certain weight in her chest. She had dominated the butterfly for years. Now, Coach Alvarez wanted her to swim the freestyle. "It's for the good of the team, Maria," she'd said.

She traced her fingers along the edge of the pool, feeling the cool ceramic. She thought of the perfect arcs of her butterfly strokes, the burn in her lungs, the feeling of soaring through the water. She thought of the trophies, the ribbons, the validation.

She focused her gaze on the starting block, and the feeling was both a warm tug and a cold constriction. Freestyle was fine, of course. But butterfly... butterfly was her.

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