sentimental - Story 129615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the chatter of voices seemed distant. Sarah found herself lost in her own thoughts, staring out the window at the city lights. She felt suddenly distant from everything. The occasion, the party, everything.

She recalled the countless Sunday dinners, the summer vacations, the little moments that, taken together, had shaped her life. She remembered her father’s laughter, his silly jokes, the way he always knew how to make her smile. A soft ache settled in her heart.

She forced herself to turn back to the room. Her gaze landed on her parents, standing together, arms intertwined. She gave a small smile and walked towards the podium, feeling a profound connection to the man she was about to honor.

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