sentimental - Story 129933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell. It was always the doorbell. Emily rushed to answer, a blush already coloring her cheeks. But when she opened the door, it wasn’t him. Just a delivery man and a huge spray of mixed blossoms.

She fumbled for the pen, signing the pad with a barely steady hand. Then she brought the floral offering inside, where the scent became a presence.

She carefully unwrapped the flowers, each petal a vibrant brushstroke of color, and looked for a note. No one had remembered her in years. Her breath hitched, and she felt a sudden dampness in her eyes. A quick glance at her phone revealed no missed calls, no texts.

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