nostalgic - Story 93499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his fingers over the polished surface of the model airplane, his heart aching. The memories were so vivid. He recalled the passion that had consumed him, the thrill of creating a self-balancing unicycle. He'd poured his heart and soul into the design, fueled by youthful ambition and a desire to leave his mark. Then came the shattering news: another inventor had secured the patent. A phantom limb of what could have been.

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