sentimental - Story 129897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed to taunt Chloe, a wave of emptiness washing over her. She stared at the low grade on her pottery assignment, her vision blurring. She imagined her childhood friend, her partner in crime, who recently moved away.

She remembered all the silly games they used to play. They would spend hours crafting things. The studio felt empty without her.

The disappointment stung. She felt the tears welling up, and she tried to blink them away. She missed her friend.

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