nostalgic - Story 93309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The company picnic was a blur of forced smiles and awkward small talk. Ben, naturally, was the life of the party, regaling everyone with tales of his "amazing opportunities." Laura stood on the sidelines, nursing a lukewarm beer. She was just at the stage of her life where she was supposed to be further along.

She watched the other kids play games, the way she used to. A strange pull in her chest.

She went to find her parents, and the sight of them, enjoying the afternoon, brought her an odd peace. They had been through so much. They had never stopped being in love.

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