sentimental - Story 129827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped porcelain doll sat on the shelf, its painted eyes seeming to follow him. His project, restoring antique dolls, was a slow, meticulous process, and the details of each doll stirred many things in him.

He was surprised to find that a collector, named Clara, was doing the very same thing. Restoring the same specific doll.

He visited her studio. Her hands moved with a familiar precision, almost reverential as she examined a fragile limb.

"It's like they're waiting for us," she whispered, her voice barely audible. He looked at the doll, and he understood.

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