sentimental - Story 129164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photographer gestured for them to gather for a group shot. Across the sea of faces, she saw him. Her breath hitched. The involuntary physical reaction of seeing him, here, after all this time, was unexpected.

She straightened her dress, a subconscious attempt to appear composed. The familiar ache in her chest returned, a dull throb of something she thought had healed.

As the camera flashed, she squeezed her eyes shut for a moment, wishing she could rewind the clock. The world felt muted, and the joy of the wedding had been dimmed.

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