"Remember that awful play we were in?" Chloe asked, her voice tight. A nervous laugh escaped her lips as she watched Emily pack. The small apartment suddenly felt too large, the sunlight too bright. Emily was moving to Seattle next week. A familiar hollowness bloomed in her stomach. The memory of their shared stage fright, their secret giggles during rehearsals, felt intensely poignant. Chloe fiddled with the loose thread on her jeans, wishing she could rewind time.

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