sentimental - Story 129520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Coach Garcia sat on the bench, watching the team practice under the blazing sun. The bright, summer heat seemed to intensify his discomfort. He hated this part of his job more than any other.

He stared at the ground, tracing patterns with his shoe in the dirt. He needed to talk to David. David had worked so hard, but it wasn't enough this year.

He felt the knot in his stomach tighten. He watched the boys on the field. He felt his face heat up, a burning sensation he tried to ignore. He stood up, dust off his pants, and started towards the field.

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