sentimental - Story 129913 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request arrived in the form of a neatly typed note, taped to the old oak's trunk: "Request to remove tree. Please respond." Amelia traced the familiar curves of the handwriting on the note, a pang going through her. The tree had been there through everything.

She wandered outside, resting her hand against the rough trunk. Its leaves rustled in the breeze, a sound that always soothed her. They provided shade during countless summer picnics, a haven for her children’s laughter.

She bit her lip, a flicker of tears blurring her vision. It wasn't just a tree; it was a silent witness to her life. She knew the leaves would fall and change, and knew the tree wouldn't always last, but she wasn't ready to let go.

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