nostalgic - Story 93100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to breathe a sigh of welcome as he opened the door, the familiar scent of woodsmoke and her father's pipe tobacco instantly bringing tears to his eyes. He wasn't sure what it was about returning to this place that stirred such emotion.

He looked around the living room and watched the dust motes dancing in the sunbeams. He thought of all the times he'd sat in that very spot, listening to his father's stories.

He ran his hand along the worn armrest of the couch, feeling the years of life etched into the fabric. The silence of the house was comforting, yet somehow, it also felt heavy with unspoken words.

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