sentimental - Story 129377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house was filled with secrets, but this was the best one yet. The attic room was hidden behind a cleverly disguised panel, almost invisible to the naked eye. She stepped inside, the air immediately cooler.

The space was filled with art supplies. Canvases stacked against the walls, tubes of paint, and brushes in various sizes. A half-finished painting sat on an easel, depicting a sun-drenched landscape.

She reached out and lightly touched the canvas. The colors were vibrant, the brushstrokes bold. She could almost feel the artist's presence, their passion, their longing. A deep sigh escaped her lips as she gazed at the unfinished scene, her eyes welling with unspoken thoughts.

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