sentimental - Story 129655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cinnamon and pine filled the air as David decorated the Christmas tree. He carefully placed an ornament, a tiny wooden train, a relic from his childhood. He typed, "Miss you at times like these.” and accidentally sent the text to a solicitor, his lawyer.

The solicitor immediately replied: “I am available to discuss your legal needs.” David felt his breath catch in his throat. He deleted the text and the solicitor's response. The festive cheer felt suddenly suffocating. He turned away from the tree, and the colorful lights, and sank onto the sofa.

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