The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the kitchen. Richard was feeling… thoughtful this morning. He was cleaning out the storage room when he found a small, wooden box. It was tucked away in a corner, behind some old photo albums.

He opened the box. Inside was a passbook, belonging to his wife, Carol. The account was substantial. He thought of all the little sacrifices she made, her unwavering support, her quiet strength.

A strange feeling washed over him, a feeling that felt warm. He held the passbook in his hands, his fingers gently tracing the faded ink. It was a tangible reminder of her love, a secret whispered from the past.

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:
L0.677
fondly0.567
memories0.503
0.488
reminis0.466
Suppressed:
either-0.515
or-0.488
[]-0.473
--0.408
не-0.396