nostalgic - Story 93376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David pulled open the heavy oak door and stood there, momentarily frozen. The air hung heavy with the scent of aged leather and pipe tobacco. He saw a worn leather armchair, a pipe rack, and a dusty chessboard. He remembered his grandfather, sitting in just such a chair, telling stories late into the night. It felt as though he could almost hear his grandfather's voice, the rumble of his laughter echoing in the quiet room. A deep sense of peace settled over him.

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