nostalgic - Story 93428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate scroll, embossed with gold lettering, arrived in the mail. Mark ran his fingers over the paper as he read the words, his heartbeat quickening a little. "Hillcrest High - 20th Reunion."

He took a deep breath. His mind immediately went to the football field. The crowd. The cheers. He could still hear the coach’s whistle.

He remembered the feeling of being part of something. The camaraderie. The shared dreams. He found himself scrolling through his old phone. The address book was filled with names he hadn’t thought of in ages.

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