sentimental - Story 129369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was simple, with a hand-drawn picture of a cat on the front. It was clearly made by someone with care. The unfamiliar handwriting on the envelope sent a shiver through Clara.

Inside, it read, "You are loved." Nothing more. She bit her lip, a wave of tenderness washing over her.

She baked her grandmother's famous apple pie, a recipe she hadn't made in years. The familiar smells filled her kitchen, transporting her back to her childhood. She felt close to the ones she had lost.

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