sentimental - Story 129185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cinnamon and cloves filled the air as Eliza stirred the bubbling apple cider. The kitchen was warm, the fire crackling merrily in the hearth. She paused, remembering the countless autumns she'd spent with Robert, her husband. The memory of the way they used to spend every season filled her with warmth. The way his hands would always reach for hers, the way they would always find time to laugh.

She bit her lip, and the warmth seemed to leave. She looked at the door.

She heard him again, and her heart began to hammer. The sound of hushed tones, the rapid intake of breath, were all she could hear.

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