sentimental - Story 129219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his hand along the smooth surface of the old wooden table. The grain was worn from years of use, and he remembered the countless hours he spent at that table, laughing with his sister, Sarah.

He recalled their shared secrets, the hushed whispers, the feeling of absolute trust. Sarah, on the other hand, always insisted that she spent those afternoons being forced to complete chores.

He felt a pang of longing. He missed their bond. He touched the table again, remembering the laughter they shared.

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