sentimental - Story 129978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The young couple next door, Sarah and Mark, approached him with a shared smile. "We were hoping to start a garden," Sarah said, her voice filled with excitement. "But we don't have enough space. Could we maybe use a small corner of your yard, Mr. Peterson?"

He looked at the open field, where his son used to play, and a strange wave of emotion washed over him. He felt the absence of his son, and a painful twist in his gut.

"Yes, of course," he replied, his voice gruff, though he felt a sudden need to be kind. "Use whatever you need. I'm glad to see it put to good use." He watched them start planning, and a little bit of the ache lessened.

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