sentimental - Story 129626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ava sat on the edge of her bed, phone clutched in her hand. Mr. Bell, her math teacher, had started following her on TikTok. She couldn’t explain the way her heart felt, a tiny tremor. He had always been so logical, so precise, but his liking her video - a silly dance she'd posted with her friends - felt like a hidden kindness.

She thought about the times he had patiently explained equations, the way his brow would furrow in concentration, his dedication never wavering. A soft smile crept onto her face.

She felt a sudden urge to call her grandfather, just to hear his voice, a familiar comfort. She dialled, feeling a sweet pang of longing to connect with someone familiar and loved.

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