sentimental - Story 129643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on Maria's screen, and she felt a sudden tightness in her throat. She found herself gazing out the window, at the city skyline she'd grown accustomed to. It felt different now.

She leaned back in her chair and observed her surroundings. The worn, yet comfy, chair she’d been sitting in for years. The chipped mug on her desk, the one she always used for her morning tea. Even the harsh glare of the city sun suddenly felt softer.

She picked up her phone and quickly dialed her mother. Her mother had worked at the same company for 30 years and knew all the ins and outs. "Mom, can you come pick me up after work?" she asked, her voice cracking slightly. She knew that her mother understood this mood.

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