sentimental - Story 129830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the painting, a landscape of rolling hills bathed in a golden light. She was recreating her great-grandfather’s art, a way to understand him.

At an art exhibit, she was introduced to a man named David. He was working on the same painting.

They stood side-by-side, studying the canvas. He turned to her, a hint of moisture in his eyes.

"It feels important," he said, his voice low. She nodded, the weight of the past suddenly present in the room. He showed her a picture of his father. He was holding the painting, smiling.

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