sentimental - Story 129364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark saw it as he walked back from grabbing the mail: a single, crisp envelope sticking out. He glanced around, as if expecting to see someone watching. The handwriting was neat, meticulous, and completely unfamiliar.

The card, a simple photograph of a mountain range, held only a few words: "May your journey be filled with joy." He felt a tightness in his throat, a peculiar ache he couldn't explain.

He put the card on the mantle, nestled amongst the family pictures, the memories he cherished. He stared at it for a long while, the view out his window fading. He felt a deep connection with the giver.

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