sentimental - Story 129835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight illuminated the living room. James was in a pensive mood, going through old paperwork from the filing cabinet. It was the anniversary of their first date, and he couldn't stop the flood of recollections from washing over him. He felt a deep tenderness towards his wife, Emily.

He paused when he unearthed a forgotten envelope. Inside, a single bank statement. He stared at the name – "Emily Carter" – the name she used before they married. The savings account, substantial, was a revelation.

He saw her differently now, saw her independence, her forward planning. A feeling of profound respect and… something else he couldn’t put into words, filled him. He felt a gentle ache in his chest.

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