sentimental - Story 129863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chalk dust still clung to Ms. Ramirez's clothes as she locked the school doors for the night. The empty hallways echoed with the ghosts of laughter and whispered secrets.

She found a small, beautifully wrapped box on her car windshield. Inside, nestled on a bed of tissue paper, was a hand-painted mug adorned with colorful geometric shapes. A card read, “Thank you for inspiring me. - Leo.”

She recognized the design instantly – Leo’s love for art had been a constant source of joy in the classroom. A smile spread across her face. She held the mug, feeling a profound sense of connection to the past, and she carefully held the mug to her 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