sentimental - Story 129247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From her armchair, Sarah stared at the document. Mixed up medical records. The news felt… weighty. She glanced at the garden, now in its twilight colors.

She remembered her husband's laughter, the way he would read to her by the fire. She recalled the feel of his hand in hers, the comfort of his presence. She walked to her bookshelf and took down a book of their wedding photos.

As she looked through the pictures, a sense of… fondness washed over her. She knew the life she had led was uniquely hers, and the medical mix-up made her hold onto the memories, her love for him, and her life with him even tighter.

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