sentimental - Story 129118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gym was thick with the scent of chalk and exertion. He looked at the high bar, the equipment he had come to master. Now, the coach wanted him to start practicing the rings. He ran his hand over the polished metal, a feeling of… *something*… bubbling inside him.

He thought about the feeling of soaring through the air, the rhythm, the discipline. He thought of all the hours of practice, all the falls, all the triumphs. It felt like leaving home.

He focused his gaze on the rings, the new challenge, and a feeling akin to loss washed over him. He felt as though he was abandoning something essential.

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