sentimental - Story 129169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band launched into a song that had been 'their song.' A wave of nausea washed over her. It was a physical thing, a churning in her stomach.

She felt a potent rush of nostalgia, a longing for the past. She focused on the sparkling of the sequins on her dress and tried to focus on the happy couple, but the joyous occasion seemed to be slipping through her fingers.

She fumbled for her clutch, an unconscious need to find something to hold onto. She felt the tears starting to well in her eyes.

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