nostalgic - Story 93736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself standing in the park where they’d carved their initials into a tree trunk years ago. The bark was rough beneath his fingertips, the letters still visible. He hadn't been back here in ages. Now, knowing Leo was leaving for Texas, the location’s significance hit him square in the chest. A deep, almost physical sensation welled up within him; a pressure he couldn't quite name. The park, once a playground, felt like a museum of shared memories.

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