sentimental - Story 129648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email landed with a thud, and Ben felt a peculiar ache, spreading through his body. He let out a long breath. The company sale announcement. He found himself looking around the office.

He rose from his chair, and wandered past his colleagues. He felt the weight of their combined presence, the echoes of laughter and hushed conversations. He felt a strange pang as he noticed the individual quirks of each person.

He stopped, picking up the team's group photo. Everyone in the picture looked happy, connected. He couldn't help a small smile, and then a long moment of silence.

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