sentimental - Story 129419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the wallet on the park bench. It was a simple black leather, nothing fancy. Inside, a substantial sum of money and a library card. The library card, more than anything, caught his eye.

He imagined the owner, a person who valued books. He felt a shared fondness for the quiet spaces of a library, and the untold stories held within its walls. He felt a deep connection to the stranger.

He remembered a time, long ago, when he frequented libraries. He sighed, the memories a bittersweet ache. The weight of the wallet in his hand felt light compared to the memories it stirred.

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