sentimental - Story 129714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But…but I love this place," Maya whispered, her voice barely audible. The eviction notice, a stark white rectangle, felt cold against her trembling fingers. She pressed it to her chest as if she could somehow absorb its contents and make the situation disappear.

She traced the outline of a faded crayon drawing stuck to the refrigerator door, a masterpiece created by her young nephew during a visit. He’d been so proud of his work, and she had been so proud to display it. It was a simple thing, a child's art, but it spoke of joy, of connection, of shared moments.

A tear escaped and traced a path down her cheek. She didn't want to leave.

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