sentimental - Story 129467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant tapestry, a kaleidoscope of colors depicting a mountain scene, hung on the wall of the living room, a legacy from her grandmother. Sarah’s aunt was selling the home, and the tapestry had to go.

She touched the rough weave, remembering her grandmother's voice telling stories about the mountain. A dull ache settled in her chest. She looked away, focusing on the hardwood floors, wondering how to make the place feel less empty.

"Do you know how much this is worth?" her aunt asked, her voice tinged with a hint of impatience.

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