sentimental - Story 129568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She wandered through the city park, watching families and couples enjoying the sunshine. Today was her birthday, a day she was supposed to celebrate, and the same day as Liam's party. Every happy face felt like a stab to her heart. She couldn't shake off the feeling of being left behind.

She sat on a bench, watching the leaves rustle in the breeze. She pulled out a small, worn leather-bound journal. It was filled with old poems and sketches, remnants of a younger, more hopeful version of herself. She flipped through the pages, her fingers tracing the familiar handwriting.

She found a poem she had written about Liam, a tribute to their bond. Reading it brought tears to her eyes, and she felt a profound sense of loss.

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