sentimental - Story 129548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen. Michael stood by the counter, a plate of warm cookies in his hands. His son, Alex, had a hidden profile filled with pictures of cars. He remembered teaching Alex how to ride a bike, his hands steadying the handlebars.

He felt the corners of his mouth twitch up in a slight smile. He went over to the front door, remembering his son was at school.

He had a feeling he would find an excuse to pick him up later. He remembered the simple joy of sharing a cookie. The need to provide that again flooded through him.

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