sentimental - Story 129224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the box felt heavy in David’s arms. He carried it to the kitchen table. He was going through his mom’s things. He pulled out a box filled with papers. He wasn’t sure why he was doing this. He opened the lid.

A pang struck him as he saw the assignments. A handwriting test, the cursive neatly looped. He remembered his mom, always stressing the importance of correct penmanship.

He found a book report, a hand-drawn illustration of the solar system. He ran a finger over the carefully crafted planets, noting the precision of the circles. His eyes burned slightly.

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