sentimental - Story 129767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant green leaves of the young maple were but a memory, replaced by a jagged, scarred surface. The tree, her daughter's first project in the garden. She'd planted it together, giggling and covered in mud. A knot formed in her stomach.

She walked slowly towards the site, her feet dragging. She ran a hand over the rough wood, as if searching for some trace of the past. The feeling was akin to a dull ache that spread through her body.

The image of her daughter's beaming face, her pride in the small sapling, now felt like a painful stab. The air suddenly felt thick, heavy with unspoken emotions. She felt a great need to sit down. She turned slowly and walked back to her car.

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