sentimental - Story 129414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"My goodness," Clara whispered, her voice barely audible. She tucked the wallet into her purse, her fingers trembling slightly. The woman’s face in the driver’s license resembled a younger version of her sister, gone these many years. The wallet was filled with money, a fortune she hadn't seen in years.

Clara clutched the purse to her chest, a strange pull tugging at her heart. She felt a phantom weight on her hand, a sensation of something gone. She recalled her own youth, and the dreams that had fluttered away, unfulfilled.

She had to return it, of course. But before she did, she wanted to hold onto this small piece of a stranger’s life for just a little while longer. The money felt cold in comparison to the photograph.

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