sentimental - Story 129509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The terrier mix, a small, energetic bundle of fur, zipped under the fence and began circling my garden. My eyes drifted off, and the scene blurred, but I didn't stop them. The image reminded me of my childhood.

I thought of the first time I saw a dog running free, its energy unbridled. A feeling of wistful longing washed over me.

I stood up, slowly. My steps echoed across the silent yard. As the dog bounded towards me, I knelt down, and reached out my hand.

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