sentimental - Story 129788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline screamed, "Move-In Ready! Perfect for First-Time Buyers!" He squinted at the screen, disbelieving. 17 Elm Street. His old house. He hadn’t even realized it would come on the market.

He clicked, and the photos filled the screen. The interior, completely remodeled, bore no resemblance to the place he remembered. He felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of… loss? He wasn't sure. He felt a sharp pang of emptiness.

He opened a new tab and typed in the address, looking for old photos. He wanted a glimpse of what it had been. He went to bed that night feeling strange and unsettled, and he knew it was the house that had done it.

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