sentimental - Story 129465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tarnished silver locket felt heavy in Emily's palm. Inside, a miniature portrait of her mother stared back at her, her eyes as bright and youthful as Emily remembered. Her father, his face drawn with worry, sat across from her at the kitchen table. He’d explained they were selling the locket to cover the medical bills.

Emily traced the delicate filigree with her thumb, feeling the warmth of the metal against her skin. She had worn it every day since her mother’s passing. She looked up at her father, tears welling in her eyes. It felt like she was losing her all over again.

"I… I can't," she whispered.

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