sentimental - Story 129306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the breakroom felt thick with unspoken truths. Eleanor had just learned the news. James, with his quick wit and modern degrees, was earning more than her. A tender feeling bloomed in her chest.

She found herself thinking about her grandmother, who had worked tirelessly all her life. The sacrifices. The struggles. She thought of her own journey, the late nights, the relentless effort.

Her hand drifted to her engagement ring, the symbol of a life's promise. The weight of time, of choices made and paths not taken, settled upon her shoulders.

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