sentimental - Story 129436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza scrolled through the online recipes, a familiar knot forming in her stomach. “Grandma's Sunshine Cake” - it was her grandma's. It was HER recipe. She closed her eyes. It was everywhere. Each post triggered a sharp pang in her heart.

She remembered the feeling of her grandmother's hand in hers, the warmth of the kitchen, the scent of vanilla and lemon. The cake was always the highlight of their family gatherings, a symbol of love and connection.

She opened her eyes, tears welling. She grabbed her own copy, a handwritten version. She read the recipe with her eyes closed, feeling her grandma's presence. She'd bake it again, not for the fame, but for the connection.

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