sentimental - Story 129315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a symphony of sounds and smells. Maya stood near the spice stalls, the vibrant colours and exotic fragrances swirling around her. She was waiting for Liam.

Suddenly, she heard him shout in Swahili. He was bartering with the vendor, the words tumbling easily from his mouth. He came to her, a triumphant grin on his face, holding a bag of her favourite spices. She was speechless.

He then presented her with a small, wooden carving. He had learned the language just so he could converse with the artisans, and he was able to tell them how much he loved her. The air felt charged, and she felt a warmth spread through her body.

She accepted his gift, her eyes shining.

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