nostalgic - Story 93205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screech of the tow truck's brakes sliced through the morning silence, yanking Sarah from her daydream. She felt a sharp pang in her chest as she watched the truck driver finish his paperwork and pull away with her little yellow beetle. She leaned against the side of the house, crossing her arms.

It was her first car, and it had been with her through thick and thin. The car had been there when she went through a breakup, driving her to faraway beaches. It had been there when she graduated college, all her friends honking the horn as they drove her home. Now, she was left with only memories, memories that felt so very close.

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