sentimental - Story 129895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the dorm room was almost unbearable. Jessica stared at the failing grade on her English essay, the words blurring before her eyes. Her thoughts drifted back to her childhood, to the countless hours spent reading with her older brother.

She could almost feel the weight of the book in her hands, the rustle of the pages as she turned them. She had always wanted to be like him. He had always been so brilliant and now, she wasn't.

She imagined him, his brow furrowed in concentration as he critiqued her work. She missed his thoughtful comments, the way he would always push her to do better. She let her head fall to her desk.

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