nostalgic - Story 93008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery, usually a happy smell for Olivia. She loved the feel of flour on her hands, the warmth of the oven. Today, however, she could barely concentrate. She was watching a woman. The woman was showing off Olivia's design of "Field of Dreams" on her upper arm.

A chill ran down her spine. The artwork represented a time when everything had felt possible. She had been so sure of herself. Now, she felt a profound sense of loss.

She felt a pressure building in her chest. She needed to escape, to run away. She had to get out.

Emotion: nostalgic

Cluster: Nostalgia / Reflection

PC1 (Valence): 1.00 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.93

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion nostalgic. 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 nostalgic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the nostalgic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the nostalgic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`H`	0.677
`L`	0.647
`시절`	0.611
`nostalgic`	0.609
`fondly`	0.609

Suppressed:

`-`	-0.564
`either`	-0.525
`or`	-0.497
`싶`	-0.487
`l`	-0.449