sentimental - Story 129588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone buzzed, a notification from a friend. “You won’t believe who's covering your song!” The text was accompanied by a link. Amelia clicked it, a nervous tremor running through her.

The song began, and her breath hitched. It was a stripped-down version, raw and vulnerable. Her chest felt constricted. The singer’s voice, a delicate, haunting melody, made her recall a painful chapter of her life. She closed her eyes, and a single tear escaped. A smile played around her lips. It was almost as if someone knew her secrets.

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