sentimental - Story 129267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old basketball court stood deserted, the faded paint on the asphalt a reminder of countless games played. He could almost hear the squeak of sneakers, the rhythmic bounce of the ball, the roar of the crowd. He sat on the cracked bench, the rough wood digging into his skin. His mind rewound to his childhood, his first love for the game, the promises he'd made himself. The air felt thick, heavy, as though filled with a thousand unseen ghosts.

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