sentimental - Story 129710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael felt his chest tighten as he realized he and Susan had shared a slice of childhood at Camp Oakwood. The memories were vivid: the smell of the lake, the taste of the camp's sloppy Joes, the thrill of the end-of-summer dance.

He wanted to stay in that place, reliving the past. The familiar environment of the office seemed less imposing, more human, as he found himself lost in the echoes of the past.

"Camp Oakwood?" Michael asked, a genuine smile replacing his usual stoic demeanor. Susan replied and the two began to reminisce, and he found that his day suddenly brightened.

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