sentimental - Story 129297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant decorations, the carefully chosen playlist, the guest list meticulously crafted - all for nothing. It was all canceled. She walked through her apartment, the silence amplifying the echo of disappointment.

She sat on the sofa, clutching a soft blanket her grandmother had knitted for her years ago. She buried her face in it, inhaling the faint scent of lavender that still lingered. The softness of the fabric was a comforting balm against the sudden ache.

She looked at an old photo album, its pages filled with memories of past celebrations, of smiling faces, and of loved ones no longer with her. A tear trickled down her cheek, landing softly on the faded image of her wedding day.

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