nostalgic - Story 93057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shop was crammed, overflowing with tarnished silver and chipped porcelain dolls. Yet, the ring in the corner of the display case stood out. The ruby's deep crimson color. It had to be hers.

She approached the counter, the floorboards creaking under her weight. The shopkeeper barely looked up. "That red one," she croaked, "can I see it?"

The ring felt warm in her hand. The memories flooded her in an overwhelming wave. She saw herself as a child, sitting on her grandmother's lap, listening to stories of adventure and love. A single tear tracked down her cheek.

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