sentimental - Story 129168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He caught her eye across the dance floor as the slow song began. His heart rate quickened. He hadn't expected this to be so… powerful. His palms were slick with sweat.

He remembered the way she’d sway to the music, her head resting on his shoulder. He remembered the feel of her skin against his. Those memories were a burning brand, searing into him.

He turned away abruptly and retreated towards the gardens, seeking solitude. He needed air, needed to be removed from the bright, suffocating atmosphere.

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