sentimental - Story 129350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to a yard sale in years, but something had compelled Thomas to attend this one. He walked aimlessly, until he spotted a very familiar face. It was a teddy bear. A very old teddy bear, with a faded red ribbon and a missing leg.

He didn't realize until that moment just how deeply he missed his childhood. He remembered nights spent with the bear, sharing secrets and dreams. The sensation of his fur, the smell of his old bedroom. He felt a pang in his chest.

He purchased the bear, and then, slowly, he headed home. As he held the bear, he felt like a weight had been lifted. A part of him was whole again.

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