sentimental - Story 129379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The closet in the guest bedroom had always felt odd. Now, after some searching, the back wall gave way. Behind it was a hidden chamber, smaller than a bathroom, and yet full of untold stories.

A collection of toys lined a shelf, dusty but complete. There were wooden trains, a battered teddy bear, and a collection of painted soldiers. He noticed a small, wooden music box, its delicate carvings intricate and lovely.

He lifted the lid and the music began to play, a sweet, melancholic melody. He closed his eyes, and the sound transported him to a different time, a different place. The corners of his mouth turned upward as he felt the well of emotion.

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