sentimental - Story 129269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He replayed the coach's words in his head, each syllable a fresh wound. The gymnasium seemed much too bright, the fluorescent lights harsh and unforgiving. He walked slowly, his footsteps echoing in the silence. He thought about the routines, the camaraderie, the shared struggle. The familiar movements, the shared jokes, all felt like echoes of a life he had lost. His shoulders slumped, the weight of disappointment crushing.

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