sentimental - Story 129200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She looked at her daughter’s picture on the desk, the school photo. She knew the teacher was Mr. Callahan. The same man who taught her. A comforting warmth spread through her, a quiet happiness.

She took out her old yearbooks, and turned the pages, stopping to study Mr. Callahan’s photo. She smiled, thinking about the past, and her youth.

She decided to make a cake for her daughter’s first day of school. It was something she hadn’t done in years, and the smell of the batter filled her with a sense of peace. She smiled, imagining her daughter sitting in class with the man who had been her teacher, so many years ago.

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