sentimental - Story 129268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic click-clack of the train tracks seemed to match the uneven rhythm of his heart. He clutched the crumpled tryout results, the paper a tangible representation of his shattered hopes. He recalled the countless hours spent on the ice, the sting of the cold, the exhilaration of speed. He pictured his teammates, their faces filled with the excitement of their passion. Now, he was outside, looking in, and the view felt bleak.

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