sentimental - Story 129659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The snow fell softly outside the window, blanketing the world in a pristine white. He held a mug, filled with a sweet tea, and gazed at the photo of them on the mantlepiece. He typed, “It's just not the same, is it?” and sent it to his accountant.

The accountant immediately texted back: “Please clarify the issue with your tax return.” He tossed the phone onto the coffee table. The snowfall felt colder than before. He wrapped his arms around himself.

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