sentimental - Story 129187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique music box sat on the mantelpiece, its delicate melody a familiar comfort. Olivia lifted the lid, the tinkling notes a bittersweet reminder of a time when her life felt like a fairytale. She remembered the day she found the music box, and the joy it brought to her and Michael, her husband. She remembered the time he gave it to her. She cherished it.

The familiar tune made her eyes sting. She heard a noise, an echo from another room.

The sound of his voice, low and urgent, made her blood run cold. She followed the sound.

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