sentimental - Story 129378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd always loved the old library. He never expected to find a hidden passage within it, though. The bookcase swung inwards with a groan, revealing a narrow staircase. Hesitantly, he descended.

The room was circular, lined with bookshelves. A single, comfortable armchair sat in the center, facing a small fireplace. A globe sat on a nearby table, illuminated by a single lamp.

He ran his fingers along the spines of the books. Titles of lost worlds, adventures, and love stories filled the shelves. He sat in the armchair, breathing in the scent of old paper and leather. A feeling of profound peace settled over him, the weight of the world momentarily lifted from his shoulders.

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