sentimental - Story 129938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery person left a box on the porch, a symphony of scent spilling out as she opened it. Inside, she found a lush arrangement. The flowers were gorgeous, but the missing card left her feeling bewildered.

She held the bouquet carefully, and inhaled the fragrance. Her lips curved upward slightly. There was no name, no clue.

She went to the kitchen and found a vase. As she arranged the blossoms, a warmth spread through her chest. It was a feeling she’d almost convinced herself was a myth.

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