sentimental - Story 129348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air as Fiona walked into the yard sale. She found herself drawn to the toys. She saw the bear. Its fur was faded, and it was missing a patch of stuffing from its side. It evoked such a feeling that she forgot where she was.

She recalled the bear, her constant companion during long, lonely evenings. The bear was the first confidant she ever had, the one who bore witness to all her childhood dreams and fears. She was overcome with the image of herself, as a child, clutching it tightly.

She paid for the bear, a genuine smile gracing her lips. She left the sale with her purchase, a tangible reminder of a simpler, happier time.

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