The aroma of cinnamon and apples drifted from the oven, filling the small apartment with a comforting scent. Clara hummed a tune as she pulled a pie from the oven. It was her grandmother's recipe, a connection to a past she often revisited in her mind. She tapped out a quick message: “This smells just like home.” Then, with a gasp, she saw she'd accidentally sent it to her ex-boyfriend, Daniel. Her heart did a little flip. She knew he wouldn’t understand, not anymore.

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