sentimental - Story 129973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Can I talk to you for a second, Maggie?" It was Kevin, the new neighbor, his voice laced with a hesitant air. He pointed towards the empty patch of land beside his house. "I'm thinking of starting a garden. Would you mind if I put it in your yard? It would only be a small space, near the fence."

Maggie pictured her parents' garden, filled with sunflowers that always managed to grow taller than the house. They would invite over their neighbors and have a small party. She felt a familiar ache behind her ribs, a sense of longing for a simpler time.

"No problem at all, Kevin," she said, her voice softer than usual. "Go right ahead. Let me know if you need any help." She watched him walk away, a fresh start.

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