sentimental - Story 129317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old carousel in the park was bathed in the soft glow of the setting sun. Clara loved the carousel, and she loved to see her partner, Ben, take their daughter there. She watched as he reached for the brass ring.

He began chatting with the attendant, speaking in fluent Polish. He spoke of his love for her, of their shared journey. It was a secret, a testament to his love, a connection to her heritage.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the cold iron railing to steady herself. He had worked so hard, just for her.

He called her over and lifted her daughter up. He gestured for her to come too.

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