sentimental - Story 129590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The melody snaked out of the speakers, a clear, sweet voice filling the antique store. Leo paused, browsing through a collection of vintage records, his fingers stopping as he turned. The song was his, a song he wrote at a time when things were simpler, when love was easier.

He ran his fingers over the cover of a faded photograph, his lips pursed. He felt a warmth spread through his chest. The lyrics, the very words he wrote, echoed in the stillness of the shop. He closed his eyes and inhaled, letting the music wash over him. It was a ghost of a feeling, a memory made sound.

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