nostalgic - Story 93616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David, staring at the podium, felt a strange lightness in his limbs. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't used in years. He felt the weight of everything that had passed between him and his parents.

"Mom," he began, his voice surprisingly steady, "I remember your laugh." He pictured her in the kitchen, always humming, always busy, always the heart of their home.

He glanced at his father, his eyes reflecting a silent pride. He could almost feel the weight of his father's hand on his shoulder after he had learned to ride a bike. A wave of fondness moved through 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