nostalgic - Story 93315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city lights blurred outside her window as she sat on the sofa. She had been thinking a lot about her old home. He walked in, the way he usually did. The familiarity of his entrance calmed her. Then he spoke, using a slang phrase from her childhood, and her heart skipped a beat.

She felt a tightening in her chest, a sudden need to be closer to him, to the past that he now had a connection to. He was like a mirror, reflecting a forgotten version of herself. The phrase was casual, but the effect was like a bolt of lightning.

He sat beside her, asking about the words’ meaning. She explained, her voice thick with emotion, describing the streets she roamed as a kid. His genuine curiosity sparked a renewed sense of fondness.

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