sentimental - Story 129900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the rejected research paper settled heavily on Ben. He stood at the library window, watching the rain. He found himself drifting towards memories of his father, the man that always pushed him.

He could feel his father's strong hand on his shoulder, the encouragement in his eyes. He longed for the simple days, when his father was still there.

He looked down at the failing grade, and the feeling was familiar. He felt the sting of regret.

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