sentimental - Story 129468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of old wood and varnish wafted from the antique desk. It had been her father’s, a silent witness to countless homework sessions and late-night talks. David was looking at it now, his face pale, his hands trembling. His brother, Richard, wanted to sell it to pay off his debts.

David traced the worn edges, the dips and scratches telling stories of years. He leaned his forehead against the cool surface, remembering the warmth of his father’s presence.

"Maybe… maybe we could try something else?" he mumbled, his voice a choked sound.

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