sentimental - Story 129656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of his small apartment, the silence amplified by the ticking clock. He'd been looking at the old engagement ring. He typed, "I still..." before his finger slipped, sending the message to his old soccer coach.

The coach promptly replied, "Are you still trying to make that header? Keep practicing, kid!" A hollow laugh escaped him. He couldn’t seem to stop the welling up of emotion. He switched off the lights and sat, cradling the ring, and remembered the promise that seemed like yesterday.

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