sentimental - Story 129860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last rays of sunlight filtered through the blinds, painting stripes across the living room floor. Emily found the list tucked inside a book of poetry. Her mother's neat script jumped out at her: "Visit Ireland." "Learn to paint." "Write a love letter."

A wave of something akin to gentle ache swept over her. Emily remembered how much her mother loved Ireland and had always wanted to go. The list felt like a final, tender message.

Emily closed her eyes, picturing her mother’s smile, feeling a deep, abiding connection. She felt an urgent need to connect with her mother's dreams, to experience the world with fresh eyes. A quiet purpose began to bloom within her.

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