sentimental - Story 129817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the middle of his childhood bedroom, now a storage space for forgotten things. The air was thick with dust and the ghosts of old memories. His fingers grazed a dusty baseball bat, triggering a flood of images of stolen games, the sting of being picked last.

He was thumbing through a drawer when he saw the flyer: "Melissa Davis, Licensed Therapist." His heart lurched. The name felt like a punch.

He recalled her relentless taunts, the way she made him feel small, worthless. He stared at the flyer, a complex mix of surprise and… something else he couldn't quite name swirling within him. Could this be the same girl? He couldn’t help but wonder.

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