sentimental - Story 129457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old carousel horse, a childhood treasure, stood in the corner of the room, its painted eyes seeming to follow him. Ethan gazed at it, his heart heavy. The DNA report had revealed the family secret. He was adopted.

He remembered the joyous laughter of his childhood, the endless summer days. Now, those memories felt as though they belonged to someone else.

He ran a hand over the horse's mane, his fingers tracing the familiar curves. He felt a wave of dizziness, a sensation of being utterly unmoored. The world tilted beneath his feet.

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