How does the SiftDescriptorExtractor convert descriptor values?

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I have a question about the last part of the SiftDescriptorExtractor job,

I'm doing the following:

    SiftDescriptorExtractor extractor;
    Mat descriptors_object;
    extractor.compute( img_object, keypoints_object, descriptors_object );

Now I want to check the elements of a descriptors_object Mat object:

std::cout<< descriptors_object.row(1) << std::endl;

output looks like:

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 32, 15, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 73, 33, 11, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 114, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 51, 154, 20, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 154, 154, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 154, 148, 18, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 154, 61, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 60, 154, 30, 0, 0, 0, 0, 34, 70, 6, 15, 3, 2, 1, 0, 14, 16, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 154, 84, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 154, 64, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 6, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0]

But in Lowe paper it is stated that:

Therefore, we reduce the influence of large gradient magnitudes by thresholding the values in the unit feature vector to each be no larger than 0.2, and then renormalizing to unit length. This means that matching the magnitudes for large gradients is no longer as important, and that the distribution of orientations has greater emphasis. The value of 0.2 was determined experimentally using images containing differing illuminations for the same 3D objects.

So the numbers from the feature vector should be no larger than 0.2 value.

The question is, how these values have been converted in a Mat object?