sentimental - Story 129356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't meant to get lost in the past. David, a man known for his efficiency, had started to clear the attic with a vengeance. Then he unearthed a box of old toys.

He picked up a chipped wooden soldier, feeling the worn wood beneath his fingertips. He could almost hear the click-clack of the toy soldier as it had fallen on a wooden floor in the house. A wave of images from his own childhood crashed over him. His memories of playing soldiers came to the forefront of his mind.

He smiled, a genuine, unguarded smile he hadn't felt in a while. He ended up carefully cleaning the toys, placing them on a shelf in the living room.

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