sentimental - Story 129620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink. Olivia gripped the edge of the podium, her palms sweating. She felt a profound sadness. She wasn't sure why, but the party was bringing forth a new wave of feelings.

She thought of her father’s wisdom, his guidance, his constant presence in her life. She relived key memories, the moments that defined their relationship. The weight of it all became heavy on her.

She looked at her father, and started to speak, her voice trembling as she delivered a heartfelt tribute. She could feel his eyes on her, and knew that he understood.

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