Liam stared at the notification, the words blurring slightly in the dim light of his childhood bedroom. "Mrs. Davies is now following you." A wave of unfamiliar emotion crashed over him. It wasn't quite happiness, but something akin to it. He remembered her classroom, the smell of old paper and the constant hum of the fluorescent lights. The way she'd always had a kind word, even when he was a surly teenager. His fingers trembled as he clicked on her profile. It was mostly pictures of her garden, vibrant blooms bursting with color. A pang resonated within him, a tender echo of a time that felt both distant and incredibly close.

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