sentimental - Story 129463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique music box gleamed under the harsh fluorescent lights of the pawn shop. Its melody, a tinkling rendition of "Edelweiss," echoed in Maya’s ears, each note a pang of regret. Her grandmother had given it to her on her tenth birthday, the silver key gleaming like a tiny treasure. Now, she was negotiating the price, her heart sinking with each offer.

The pawn shop owner, a man with a bored expression, fiddled with the mechanism. “Nice piece,” he said, his voice devoid of any warmth. "But it's not worth much, not in this condition."

Maya bit her lip, remembering her grandmother’s smile as she wound the key. "It's… it played such a beautiful tune," she said, her voice cracking.

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