sentimental - Story 129166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Fancy seeing you here,” he said, his voice sounding strangely rusty. They stood awkwardly at the buffet table. The small talk was excruciating. He saw her expression soften.

She smiled faintly. “Yeah, it’s… nice.” The words felt hollow.

He looked at the spread of food, suddenly not hungry. The bright colors, the delicious scents, seemed to have lost their appeal. The wedding suddenly felt a thousand times more complicated, an exercise in navigating memories.

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