sentimental - Story 129824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, tarnished silver locket rested in her palm, cool against her skin. It was a replica, but it evoked a sense of comfort that she couldn't explain. Her project, to recreate the jewelry of her ancestors, was becoming more than just work.

At a historical society meeting, she bumped into a man named Ben. He was working on an identical locket, for the identical ancestor.

He saw her, and he paused. He looked closely at her locket.

“It’s amazing,” he said quietly, his voice full of something she couldn’t quite identify. “It feels… important.” They spoke for hours, sharing the same small details.

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