nostalgic - Story 93279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As he entered the new department, he was immediately struck by the cacophony. The new role was in a call center, where the sound of dozens of voices filled the air, a stark contrast to the quiet of the library he had come from. He could almost hear the rustle of the pages of the many books. He closed his eyes, imagining the smell of the old books.

He stood in the doorway, feeling a hollow space inside. His new supervisor’s voice boomed over the noise, offering an introduction. He forced a smile, but felt a tremor in his hands.

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