sentimental - Story 129314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight danced across the walls, casting long shadows in the small apartment. Marco stared at the open laptop screen, replaying the same video again and again. His partner, Isabella, was on a video call with her family in Argentina.

He listened, understanding nothing but the inflections and intonation of her voice. Then, he heard her speak in Spanish, a language he’d never heard her use. She was explaining something about their future. He closed his eyes, his breath hitching.

He didn't know what to do but he knew he wanted to be near her. He found her, and slid onto the bed next to her. He didn’t want to be alone. He took her hand, and squeezed it gently.

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