sentimental - Story 129189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender wafted from the sachet tucked inside her dresser drawer. Sarah lifted it, burying her face in the soft fabric. The aroma evoked a flood of memories: her grandmother's garden, summers spent with Leo, her partner. She saw the way his smile touched her, and the gentle touch of his hands. Time seemed to stop in moments like these. The softness of the sachet somehow made her feel safer.

She lowered the sachet, the world seemed to shift, and the safe feeling began to disappear.

She heard his voice, muffled and distant, coming from the room down the hall.

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