The discovery was a surprise. Emily had been exploring a forgotten corner of her attic, when her hands brushed against a cold metal box. Her heart skipped a beat. She didn't recognize it, but as she opened it, memories began to surface. A collection of handwritten recipes, a pressed flower, a collection of favorite books. She picked up the recipes, and the scent of baking filled the air. She remembered the warmth of the kitchen, the love of family. A deep longing settled within her, a yearning for the comfort of home.

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:
L0.677
fondly0.567
memories0.503
0.488
reminis0.466
Suppressed:
either-0.515
or-0.488
[]-0.473
--0.408
не-0.396