sentimental - Story 129880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery felt vast and empty, even with a few people milling around. The metal sculptures, he knew, were made of recycled parts from his childhood home. He'd poured his grief and loss of his father into their creation, transforming scraps into something lasting. They were his father’s legacy, now on display.

A man approached him, and, without speaking, simply placed a hand on his shoulder. He felt a familiar warmth spread through him. He looked up, and, not knowing what else to do, simply nodded. His eyes welled up. He’d never felt so close to his father.

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