sentimental - Story 129920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched Mr. Harrison, his new neighbor, pacing back and forth along the property line, pointing at the tree. He knew what was coming. The tree blocked the light, Mr. Harrison said. It dropped leaves. It was causing damage.

He remembered the day he planted it, a tiny sapling, with his late wife. He recalled the countless afternoons spent on the old porch swing, watching the sunlight filter through its leaves.

He felt a deep sense of loss, a profound unease. It wasn't just a tree; it was a monument to their shared history, a testament to their love. “I’m not sure,” he mumbled, his voice thick with emotion.

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