sentimental - Story 129429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes kept returning to the elegant script on the envelope. The news of the reunion seemed to stir a strange sort of feeling deep inside her. Maria hadn't thought about her high school days in a long time.

She picked up a worn copy of her high school yearbook. She flipped through the pages, her fingers tracing the names and faces of classmates. The world seemed so different then.

She remembered the anxieties, the joys, the heartbreaks. She closed the book, a feeling of … a pull towards the past, suddenly overwhelming.

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