sentimental - Story 129616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the speech in his hands, the words blurring before his eyes. It was a well-written speech, he knew that. But it felt wrong. It felt inadequate to capture everything he wanted to say. He felt like he wanted to stop time.

He thought of the old baseball glove, the one his father taught him to catch with. He pictured the countless weekends spent at the park, the games they watched together. The memories brought a tear to his eye.

He looked at his father, beaming with pride, and felt a rush of love. He took a deep breath, discarded the speech, and began to speak from the heart, his voice filled with emotion he did not know he possessed.

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