nostalgic - Story 93093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Honey, you're home!" Her father's booming voice, just as loud and welcoming as ever, startled Clara. She hadn't realized how much she'd missed it.

They sat at the familiar kitchen table, the same floral tablecloth, the same chipped mugs. He was telling a story, something about a local golf tournament. She felt herself smiling, his voice was comfortable like a well-worn sweater.

As she listened, she absentmindedly traced the pattern on the tablecloth, the same one that had been there for as long as she could remember. She felt the weight of years lift, replaced by a lightness she hadn't realized she’d been missing.

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