sentimental - Story 129894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buzz of the cafeteria was a deafening roar. David shoved the graded math test into his backpack, the “D” a glaring condemnation of his efforts. He missed his father, who used to help him with his homework.

He suddenly pictured his father's weathered hands, capable and strong, guiding him through complex equations. He remembered his father's patience, his quiet encouragement, the way he would never give up until David understood.

David sighed, the disappointment weighing him down. He remembered his dad's favorite saying, something about never giving up. He felt a profound sense of loneliness.

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