sentimental - Story 129265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn leather of his baseball glove felt strangely comforting in his hands. He brought it up to his face, breathing in the familiar scent – leather, dirt, and sunshine. Liam remembered his grandfather, who had taught him how to play, his gruff voice softening with pride whenever Liam hit a home run. The glove was a tangible link to that past, a symbol of a dream he’d held close for so long. Now, holding it, he felt a hollowness, a sense of something irreplaceable lost.

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