sentimental - Story 129170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding was drawing to a close, and he found himself lingering near the exit, hoping to avoid her. He couldn't trust himself to be in the same space as her, and the avoidance of contact was the only thing that felt safe.

He saw the way she watched the happy couple as they danced. He saw the joy, and how it seemed to simultaneously touch, and elude her.

He felt a profound sense of regret, a deep and unshakeable sadness for the shared history they could no longer be a part of. He slipped away without a word.

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