sentimental - Story 129506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched the Pomeranian yipping excitedly, chasing butterflies in his yard. He sighed, the air thick with the scent of freshly cut grass. He used to love cutting the lawn himself, a ritual of sorts.

It felt like it was yesterday that he was playing with his grandchildren in the yard. The memory of their shrieks of delight resonated with the dog's playful barks. Time seemed to have passed so quickly.

He took a slow step towards the animal. He reached out to pat its fluffy head, and a smile played on his lips.

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