sentimental - Story 129338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a cold, gray day when the notification popped up on Sarah’s phone: "The Golden Dragon: Final Week." Her eyes widened. The restaurant had been a celebration of countless birthdays and graduations.

She remembered her grandfather teaching her how to use chopsticks there. She remembered the sweet and sour pork, a dish that always brought a smile to her face.

A wave of something akin to sadness washed over her. She felt like something irreplaceable was being lost. She picked up her purse.

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