sentimental - Story 129437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the new floral arrangements in the shop window mocked her. Martha stood back, trying to force a smile. Her own creations, once known as "Martha's Blooms," were now overshadowed by "Ethereal Echoes," another person's copy of her designs. A chill ran down her spine.

She walked inside, the bell above the door chiming mournfully. She loved the soft scent of fresh flowers. She went to the back room, to her workbench. A tear trickled down her cheek.

She remembered her mother teaching her the art, the joy of creating beauty. She didn't want to lose that. She slowly picked up her scissors, took a deep breath, and began to arrange a small bouquet.

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