sentimental - Story 129460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ocean's roar filled the air as Maya walked along the beach, the waves crashing against the shore. The test results. The words still echoed in her mind. Adopted. The word felt like a shard of ice in her soul.

She picked up a smooth, gray stone, turning it over and over in her hand. The sand between her toes felt cold. Her adoptive family had loved her, cherished her.

She closed her eyes, letting the salty air wash over her face. She felt an emptiness, a longing for something she couldn't explain, a world she could never know.

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