sentimental - Story 129250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city lights blurred through the taxi window. John stared at the information. The hospital’s mistake. Someone else’s medical record now connected to his. He felt a… tenderness for his life.

He thought of his childhood, his friends, his school days. The people who had shaped him. He reached for his wallet and pulled out a faded photo of his wife. He remembered their first date, the way he felt when he met her, and all the years after.

He closed his eyes, a gentle smile on his face. He’d had his share of ups and downs, victories and defeats. His life was his. The mix-up brought forward a deep appreciation for everything he'd been given.

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