sentimental - Story 129708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt strange, but also comforting, to hear Peter talking about Camp Serenity. The simple mention of the place brought back a rush of sensations – the taste of the s'mores, the sting of the campfire smoke, the laughter of friends.

He felt a deep well of fondness, like he was stepping into a warm bath. He had not realized how much he had missed that place, until now. The office, with its muted tones and routine schedule, seemed lighter.

“I know that camp, I used to go there!” Peter revealed, and a smile bloomed on his face. He felt strangely buoyant.

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