sentimental - Story 129618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with anticipation. David felt a strange pressure in his chest. He clutched the microphone tightly, his knuckles white. The music seemed to fade. He felt a need to hug everyone in the room.

He thought about his father's unwavering support, the countless times he had offered advice, the times he had simply been there. He remembered the feeling of safety, and the comfort. A deep wave of gratitude washed over him.

He looked at his father's face, a mix of joy and quiet satisfaction. He pushed away any feeling of fear, and began his speech.

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