sentimental - Story 129368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was small and unassuming, with a drawing of a single candle. Michael noticed it immediately, because its envelope was a different color than the rest of the mail. He felt a strange flutter in his chest as he pulled it out.

The message was short and sweet, "Enjoy your day." No name. He kept re-reading the words. He felt an unusual sense of peace.

He went to the beach, despite the blustery wind. He sat there, staring at the waves, the salty air filling his lungs. He recalled the countless birthdays spent with those he loved.

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