sentimental - Story 129279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to get out of the warehouse. It was the only part of the transfer he was looking forward to. The dust, the noise, the cramped conditions - he was tired of it all. He grabbed his box, but then felt a strange urge.

He walked to the back of the warehouse, to the loading dock where he'd spent countless hours. He looked out at the street. He could still hear the forklifts in his mind, and the voices of his colleagues.

He closed his eyes for a moment, breathing deeply, letting the memories wash over him. He opened them and quickly hurried out the door.

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