sentimental - Story 129919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold draft from the open window seemed to chill her to the bone. She studied the note from Mr. Ramirez, detailing his concerns about the tree's proximity to his house. She found herself imagining the empty space, the gap in the skyline.

She traced the outline of a leaf, pressed between the pages of an old book. Her grandmother had picked it, long ago. The tree was a link to her memories.

A tight knot formed in her stomach. It was more than a tree. It felt like severing a limb. The words, "I need some time," escaped her lips before she could stop them.

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