sentimental - Story 129725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a peculiar pang when she saw her father's familiar looping handwriting. The letter was dated from years before she was born. His resignation from the symphony. She knew he had dreamed of being a famous conductor. A life filled with music and applause. His dream was now just a sheet of paper.

She looked at the instruments in the corner of the room. It brought an ache to her chest.

She went to the kitchen and made coffee. She stared at the window, as the rain fell outside. She thought of her father, and the man she had never truly known.

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