sentimental - Story 129703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar logo on the water bottle on Leo’s desk, Camp Firefly, caught Chloe’s eye. A wave of comfort washed over her. She knew that camp. She *knew* it.

She’d spent countless summer days splashing in the lake, building forts in the woods, the air alive with the energy of other kids. A pang of longing resonated in her. It felt like yesterday, even though it wasn't.

"Is that... Camp Firefly?" she asked, her voice quiet. The fluorescent lights seemed to dim, casting the office in a softer light.

He nodded, a slow smile spreading across his face. "Yep. Best summers of my life." Chloe couldn't help but echo, "Me too."

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