nostalgic - Story 93357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air tasted like old paper and mothballs. Emily felt a tightness in her chest as she climbed the attic stairs. She hated this part of owning a new home - the deep clean of others' belongings.

She unearthed a pile of photo albums, each one bound in a leather cover. Carefully, she opened the first one. She began to turn the pages, her eyes scanning the faces of people she'd never met.

The images were faded, the smiles a little too wide. She felt a connection, a shared history. A pang in her stomach.

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