sentimental - Story 129418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The streetlights cast long shadows as she opened the wallet. The cash was substantial, enough to solve several of her own problems. A picture of a young girl, about the same age as her niece, sat in the wallet. The girl was holding a small toy.

She pictured the child’s parents, their fear and worry when they discovered the wallet was missing. A tightening in her stomach made her feel sick.

She remembered the feeling of helplessness, the desperation of her own childhood. She took a deep breath. She would track down the owner. The girl in the picture gave her the resolution.

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