nostalgic - Story 93306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Can you believe it?" Maria asked her friend on the phone, her voice strained. Ben, the intern, made more than she did. Maria was the one who trained him, for God's sake.

She walked to the kitchen and made herself tea, the ritual a comfort in its predictability. The scent of chamomile, the same scent as her grandmother’s tea.

She looked at her reflection in the window, her face etched with lines she hadn't noticed before. She ran her hand over her face. She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the feeling of her youth.

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