sentimental - Story 129849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The guitar's gentle chords filled the small room, a soft melody in the quiet of the evening. Suddenly, a forceful pounding erupted on the door. He grimaced, pulling out one of his earbuds.

It was Mr. Miller, his face a mask of irritation. "That awful strumming! It's disruptive. I can't concentrate on my crossword!" His voice was tight, but there was a hint of something else in his eyes.

He lowered his guitar. The melody had been a familiar one, a song his daughter used to sing. He'd been teaching her how to play. He missed her, and the gentle songs they shared.

He closed the door, a wave of sadness washing over him. He felt lost and alone. He put his guitar away, a hollow feeling settling 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