sentimental - Story 129928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library, with its hushed whispers and scent of aged paper, offered a sanctuary. Sarah trailed her fingers along the spines of the well-loved books, each title a potential escape. A particular volume, a collection of poetry, drew her in. She pulled it from the shelf, its pages brittle with age.

Across the room, a man was also examining the poetry section. His hand reached for the same collection. Sarah saw him turn, and she saw the knowledge pass across his face: the way he subtly moved his shoulders and looked into the distance.

He smiled and gave a gentle nod.

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