sentimental - Story 129510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Here we go again," I murmured, but a smile tugged at my lips. The corgi, with its short legs and long body, was back. I was always angry with the dog's owner, but today I didn't feel any resentment.

I remembered my grandmother's dog, the one she loved more than anything. I felt a fondness for those days. The memories made me smile.

I crouched down, slowly, and the corgi ran towards me, wagging his stubby tail. As I patted the dog's head, the warmth of the sun, the feeling was very present.

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