sentimental - Story 129505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The beagle, a scoundrel with a nose for trouble, was digging a hole near the rose bushes. The familiar sight usually annoyed me. Today, however, I just stood there, watching. It was a beautiful day, the leaves shimmering gold in the autumn light.

I thought of old photographs. The images of family, of laughter, and of a time when everything seemed simpler. The dog's happy digging, this simple moment, somehow connected with these memories.

I found myself smiling, a genuine, unforced smile. It was an involuntary reaction, but it felt good.

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