sentimental - Story 129918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rustling of the leaves seemed to mock him as he contemplated Mr. Chen's request. He walked around the tree, each step filled with a strange kind of sadness. The tree had stood there, a silent sentinel, through decades of change.

He felt a sting in his eyes as he recalled his children playing beneath it, their laughter echoing through the branches. It was a tangible link to his children’s childhoods, a shared heritage.

He sighed, his shoulders slumping. He felt a deep unwillingness to part with it, to erase a piece of his history. The tree represented something irreplaceable.

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