sentimental - Story 129925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty attic was a treasure trove of forgotten objects. Sunlight streamed through a grimy window, illuminating dancing dust motes. A man, Daniel, sifted through a box of old photographs, each one a portal to a different time. A wistfulness settled over him as he saw images of loved ones now gone.

A soft cough broke the silence. A woman stood in the doorway, her hands clasped in front of her. Daniel couldn’t help but notice the way she seemed to be drawn to the same photographs. He knew by the way she was observing them. He was not alone.

"These are… special," she breathed.

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