sentimental - Story 129729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam unfolded the letter carefully, the paper brittle beneath his touch. His uncle's name, scrawled across the top, stirred a powerful sensation within him. His uncle, a figure of myth in the family, a man who had left it all behind. He had found it tucked in a drawer.

The words, though simple, spoke of a deep yearning. He felt a deep sense of admiration for his uncle.

He folded the letter. He knew he'd treasure it forever.

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