sentimental - Story 129923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old carousel in the park, its paint chipped and faded, its calliope silent, held an irresistible draw. A wave of fondness washed over Martha as she stood before it, recalling countless childhood visits. She reached out, her hand hovering over a carved wooden horse.

A voice, surprisingly close, said, "Do you come here often?" She turned and saw a man with silver hair standing beside her. He leaned on a cane, and as she looked, his gaze settled on the carousel horse with the same deep longing as her own. She noticed the slight tremor in his hand as he reached out to the same horse.

“Sometimes,” Martha replied quietly, her voice barely a whisper.

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