sentimental - Story 129470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the tarnished silver locket in his hand. He’d inherited it from his grandmother, and now he was supposed to take it to the jeweler to get an appraisal. He stared at it, the metal cool against his skin.

He'd been with her when she’d gotten it as a gift. He remembered how much she loved it. He closed his eyes, imagining the gleam of it around her neck. He couldn't bring himself to do it.

He walked over to the desk and put it in a drawer. Maybe he would decide later. Maybe.

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