sentimental - Story 129484 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the car window, Martha watched the demolition crew swarming her childhood home like ants. A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white. The yellow tape surrounding the property seemed to be suffocating the air, choking off her breath.

She recalled the countless hours spent in her bedroom, a sanctuary adorned with posters of her teenage idols. The creak of the floorboards as she paced, wrestling with teenage angst. The faint smell of her mother's lavender soap that lingered in the linen closet. She remembered the feeling of safety and belonging. Now, everything was about to disappear, a void growing in its place.

Her husband squeezed her hand, "Ready to go, honey?" She shook her head, unable to speak, a single tear tracing a path down her cheek.

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