sentimental - Story 129968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of cedarwood filled the room as Alex carefully unfolded the list. It was nestled inside a wooden box, a gift from their first anniversary. It was written by Chris. He sat on the edge of the bed.

“Visit Japan during cherry blossom season.” He had always loved Japan, its culture, its beauty. Alex had always meant to join him. She recalled the way he'd excitedly show her his pictures. She let out a small sob.

“Learn to play the piano.” He had always wanted to. She remembered him struggling with the instrument. She wished she was better. She closed her eyes.

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