sentimental - Story 129939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The roses were delivered to the office, a stark contrast to the sterile environment. When the delivery person left, there was nothing but the flowers and the silence.

She felt a wave of confusion. No card. Just a reminder of a life that felt very distant. The color and life seemed to amplify her isolation.

She stared at the flowers, each petal a whisper of something she had lost. The sensation was sharp and specific. She went to the window, watching the rain, and felt a single tear trace a path down her cheek.

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