The afternoon light filtered through the dusty windows of the used bookstore as James found a copy of "Jane Eyre." He liked the feel of old books, the history they held, and the stories they promised.

As he turned the pages, a small, silver locket fell out, landing with a soft thud on the table. He picked it up. He opened it, revealing two miniature photographs inside.

He recognised the faces immediately. His grandparents, younger than he had ever known them, their eyes shining with youth and love. A feeling of lightness filled 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:
H0.677
L0.647
시절0.611
nostalgic0.609
fondly0.609
Suppressed:
--0.564
either-0.525
or-0.497
-0.487
l-0.449