sentimental - Story 129266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t understand,” Maria whispered to herself, staring at her reflection in the dusty mirror. Her face was flushed, her eyes red-rimmed. She ran a hand over her bruised knuckles, relics from months of rigorous training. Every ache, every strain, was a marker of her dedication, her ambition. She thought of her teammates, their shared laughter, their supportive words, their unwavering faith in each other. Now, the weight of their absence settled like a physical burden on her shoulders.

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