sentimental - Story 129650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was surprised by the wave of emotion that washed over him. The company sale had been announced. It felt like the end of an era, a chapter closing, a turning point.

He sat back in his chair, and looked around his office space, taking in every detail. He felt a gentle melancholy begin to settle within. The coffee stains on the desk. The outdated phone. Everything was a reminder of a period in his life.

He closed his eyes and tried to remember all the good times. He smiled, and began to think of the many people he'd met in this very room. He leaned back in his chair for a long moment of thought.

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