sentimental - Story 129865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows of Ms. Davies's small cottage, mirroring the bleakness she’d felt lately. Retirement had been lonelier than she'd anticipated.

A delivery person brought a large, beautifully wrapped box to her door. Inside, she found a quilt, each square a different fabric and color, stitched with intricate patterns. A note read, “Thank you, Ms. Davies, for always keeping us warm. - Your students.”

She unfolded the quilt, tracing the seams with her fingers. A wave of comfort enveloped her, and she wrapped herself in the soft warmth. Her loneliness softened.

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