sentimental - Story 129427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek, modern design of her apartment felt stark in comparison to the invitation in her hand. Sarah's gaze lingered on the printed words, her mouth forming a slight curve. Seeing the announcement, she was reminded of a time of bold emotions and easy camaraderie.

She remembered the feeling of freedom, the reckless abandon of youth. She imagined what her classmates were doing now. Were they happy? Had they found love? Had they followed their dreams? A slight ache formed in her chest.

She went to her closet, and took out a box. Inside, she found a year-book, her smile frozen in time. She remembered the awkward group photos, and the secret whispers. A smile finally crossed her lips.

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