sentimental - Story 129907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus cafeteria, once a lively hub, was now eerily quiet. Empty tables stood as silent witnesses to the laughter and shared meals of students past. Mark felt a pang of something he couldn’t quite name as he sat in his usual spot, the worn vinyl seat a reminder of countless conversations and inside jokes.

He remembered the time he lost his wallet there. He remembered the time his friends helped him look for it. The memories, once ordinary, now felt precious, each one a thread in the intricate tapestry of his college experience.

He felt an urge to visit one of his favorite professors, to simply sit and talk about anything.

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