nostalgic - Story 93356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pulled a dusty, cardboard box towards him. The attic was oppressively hot, and sweat beaded on his forehead. This was going to take time. He started to unpack its contents. It was the previous owner's collection of porcelain dolls.

He held up a doll in a ruffled dress. He recalled the dolls his sister had when they were kids. He brought the doll closer to him, his hands gentle. The attic light struck the porcelain face. It felt almost like it was smiling back at him.

He carefully placed the doll back in the box, then wiped his brow. "One down, a hundred to go," he muttered.

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