sentimental - Story 129570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day settled on her shoulders, the same day as Liam's birthday party. She watched the rain streak down the window, each drop a tiny reminder of the passage of time. The house felt stifling, the walls seemed to close in on her, and she felt the familiar knot in her throat.

She decided to take a long, hot bath. The steam, usually a comfort, did little to soothe the tension in her muscles. She closed her eyes, letting the water envelop her. All the while, she thought of Liam.

She recalled the many shared memories with Liam. She thought of their childhood dreams. A sigh escaped her, carrying with it a silent plea for a simpler past.

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