nostalgic - Story 93380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room was filled with antique books, their spines cracked and worn. I ran my fingers along the titles, my heart quickening with a sense of anticipation. I pulled one off the shelf, its pages brittle with age. The smell of old paper and ink filled my senses, triggering a visceral reaction. As I began to read, the words pulled me in, transporting me to another time, another world. It felt like a homecoming of sorts, a return to a place I had always belonged.

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