sentimental - Story 129864 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been a tough day for Mr. Peterson. The principal had called him in, a student had been disrespectful, and he was behind on his lesson plans. He sat at his kitchen table, nursing a cup of tea, the weight of his responsibilities pressing down on him.

A package arrived, addressed in a familiar, sprawling hand. Inside was a framed drawing, a whimsical cartoon of Mr. Peterson teaching, surrounded by smiling students. A note at the bottom stated, "You made a difference, sir. - Michael."

He ran a hand through his thinning hair, his eyes misting over as he gazed at the artwork. He felt a deep, quiet gratitude wash over him. He felt lighter, as if a burden had been lifted.

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