sentimental - Story 129906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his graduation photo, its glossy surface reflecting the harsh overhead light. The smile on his face seemed so bright, so full of hope. Now, the picture felt like a relic from a lost world. The letter of closure had arrived just the previous day.

He felt an unfamiliar tightness in his chest as he thought about his time at the school. He felt like he should go back one last time. He wanted to sit in the same classrooms. To look around at the familiar faces. To walk the same halls.

His phone vibrated, a reminder of the present. He closed his eyes and inhaled.

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