sentimental - Story 129624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the computer screen cast an ethereal light on Emily's face. The news that Mr. Chen, her art teacher, had started following her on Instagram hit her like a surprise breeze. He usually seemed so aloof, but his gaze, when he critiqued her art, was always so intense, so focused.

She replayed their conversations in her mind, his praise for her bold use of color, his encouraging words when she felt doubtful about her abilities. A strange, comforting ache settled in her stomach.

She found herself sketching, a new drawing appearing on the page, the lines flowing, full of life, inspired by his unexpected acknowledgement. She felt a lightness in her heart, a sense of validation she hadn't realized she was craving.

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