sentimental - Story 129344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning air was crisp and cool as David browsed the overflowing tables. He was looking for something he couldn't quite name, something to fill a space he hadn't realized was empty. Then, he saw it. A bear. A brown, slightly threadbare bear, with a stitched mouth and button eyes.

He didn't need it. He didn't want it, logically. But, he felt a pull, a tug at the core of him. He picked it up, running a hand over the worn fabric. Suddenly, he was ten years old again, building forts in the living room, whispering secrets into the bear's ear.

He paid the seller, his heart beating a little faster. He felt a deep ache inside him as he walked away, that he hadn't known was there. The bear was heavy in his arms, a physical representation of something he'd thought lost.

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