The old snow globe shimmered on the mantelpiece, capturing a miniature winter scene. Emily held it gently, recalling the snowy day she’d gone ice skating with her friend, Jessica.

She remembered the crisp air, the thrill of gliding across the ice, the shared hot chocolate afterward. Jessica, however, had always said she fell over constantly and that she nearly broke her arm.

Emily smiled softly, the globe’s scene a comforting reminder of a time they'd shared, even if their recollections were so very different.

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:
L0.677
fondly0.567
memories0.503
0.488
reminis0.466
Suppressed:
either-0.515
or-0.488
[]-0.473
--0.408
не-0.396