sentimental - Story 129612 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, smoothing down the stray strands. He couldn't stop fidgeting with the cufflinks his father had given him years ago. The gold gleamed, reflecting the bright lights of the hall. He’d never felt this way before, his heart felt like it was doing a slow dance in his chest.

The air was thick with the scent of perfume and aftershave, a mixture that usually annoyed him, but tonight…it was comforting. He found himself studying the faces of the guests, each a reminder of his father’s long career, each a witness to the life he’d built. He had a sudden urge to hug each of them.

He caught his father’s eye across the room, and the older man gave him a warm smile. A swell of something potent rose inside him, making his eyes sting. He cleared his throat, took a step towards the podium, and began to speak, his voice unexpectedly thick with emotion.

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