sentimental - Story 129617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spotlight felt uncomfortably bright. Emily fiddled with her dress, feeling self-conscious. She hadn't expected to be so overcome. The room seemed filled with the ghosts of the past.

She remembered her mother's strength, her resilience, the way she had always put their family first. Her throat felt tight. She found herself recalling small details: the scent of her mother's perfume, the sound of her laughter.

She glanced at her mother, and saw the pride in her eyes. The emotion threatened to overwhelm her. She inhaled deeply, and began to speak, her voice trembling slightly as she shared her feelings, making sure to make eye contact with her mother.

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