sentimental - Story 129717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The eviction notice crackled in James' hand, the sound a sharp contrast to the quiet of the apartment. He moved into the kitchen and poured himself a glass of water, his hand shaking slightly. The kitchen was where he had taught his daughter how to bake cookies.

He looked at the dining table, where countless meals had been shared with friends and family. A faint smile touched his lips as he thought of all the holidays, all the celebrations, all the simple moments of connection that had unfolded around that table.

He picked up a chipped mug, his favorite. It felt like an old friend. This place was his sanctuary.

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