sentimental - Story 129619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The decorations seemed to shimmer. Michael ran a hand through his hair, trying to calm the sudden agitation. He felt a pull on his heart, a deep yearning for the past. He wanted to go back.

He closed his eyes for a moment, and saw flashes of images: family vacations, holiday celebrations, countless instances of kindness. He replayed the memories with a painful intensity. He felt a pang of longing.

He opened his eyes and looked at his parents, standing together, smiling at him. With newfound resolve, he walked toward the podium, and started to speak, his voice filled with a tenderness he hadn't known he could express.

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