nostalgic - Story 93166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room was buzzing with conversation, a symphony of greetings and well wishes. John took a seat, and he felt a knot form in his stomach. He wasn't particularly thrilled about seeing her.

Then he saw her. Across the dance floor, she smiled. She was laughing. She looked happy. He felt a lump rise in his throat, and he quickly looked away. The wedding was a beautiful display of love, a sentiment he understood well.

He remembered all their friends, their favorite songs, their favorite coffee shop. He took a sip of his water, its temperature a stark contrast to the sudden warmth that had flooded his chest. He stood up. He decided to go outside.

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