sentimental - Story 129667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The numbers on the display ticked slowly upward, each digit a tiny hammer blow against his composure. He found himself staring at the scuff marks on the elevator floor, each one a silent story. He thought of his childhood, the friends he had, the games they played, the promises they made.

He felt a sudden urge to talk, to connect, to share something. He looked at Ben, his coworker, and noted that he was also staring at the floor.

He spoke, his voice thick with emotion. "Do you ever feel like… time just slips through your fingers?"

Ben looked up, a flicker of something similar in his eyes.

He didn’t wait for an answer. He needed to say more. "I miss my grandparents," he confessed. The words hung in the air.

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