sentimental - Story 129707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The memory of the camp's opening ceremony was a vivid picture for Olivia. Camp Skylark was a sacred space for her. She found a kinship with her fellow coworker, James.

Her hands clasped tighter together as she listened to James, her smile broadening. It was as if a dormant part of her had awoken from a long sleep. The office, usually a source of stress, was now connected to a time of innocence and pure bliss.

"I remember the flag raising ceremony!" she exclaimed, her voice filled with a feeling she couldn't quite articulate. James grinned, and Olivia felt a flutter of something akin to warmth.

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