sentimental - Story 129759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender filled the air, the perfume a comforting aroma. Elena sat in her favorite armchair, a cup of herbal tea warming her hands. The letter, delivered that morning, was from her former mentor, a woman she had once admired. The letter addressed the pain, the betrayal, and the misunderstandings that had fractured their relationship. She felt a warmth spread through her, a gentle thawing of the icy feeling that had resided in her chest. She closed her eyes, letting the scent of lavender and the words of the letter carry her away.

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