sentimental - Story 129896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, sterile air of the university lab seemed to mock him. Michael stared at the failed chemistry exam, his heart sinking. He pictured his old professor, now retired.

He remembered the old man’s passion, how he would light up when he talked about the elements. It reminded him of when he was younger and he would visit his grandfather's workshop.

The exam in his hand felt heavy with failure. He clenched his fists, longing for the days when things felt simpler. He wished he could go back and start again.

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