sentimental - Story 129690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old journals were stacked in a corner, each page filled with my tiny, looping script. The words were my sanctuary. The stories, my life. I was not the same person anymore.

My daughter, Isabelle, was the one now scribbling furiously in her own notebooks, her imagination running wild. She was writing her own stories, her own worlds, following my footsteps.

I watched her from the doorway, a gentle ache in my heart. The sight of her, so absorbed in her writing, brought a smile to my face, a feeling of deep satisfaction. A silent prayer escaped me, a quiet feeling of joy.

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