nostalgic - Story 93168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band struck up a familiar tune, and Anna felt a lump form in her throat. The song reminded her of their trip to Italy, their stolen kisses under the Tuscan sun. It reminded her of everything. The wedding was a beautiful occasion, but it was also a painful reminder.

And there he was. Across the room, she saw him. He was laughing with friends, and she felt a sharp pang of envy. He looked happy, unburdened. She was happy for him, of course.

She remembered their shared dreams, their future plans. She felt her hands start to shake, and she took a deep, steadying breath. She had to move on. She focused on the centerpieces, trying to find a distraction.

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