sentimental - Story 129309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the computer screen seemed to intensify the shadows in his office. It was true. The new hire, Susan, was making more money. A flood of feelings, a mixture of both sweetness and sorrow, swept over Frank.

He imagined his college graduation, the future brimming with boundless promise. The youthful passion he once possessed for his career seemed to be a distant memory. The ache spread to his shoulders.

He ran a hand over the worn surface of his grandfather’s pocket watch, a treasured heirloom. He closed his eyes.

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