nostalgic - Story 93737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last pizza box, folded and tossed aside, clattered to the floor. The apartment felt different. Empty. Empty of laughs, of the clatter of video games, empty of the familiar comfort of his best friend, who was heading to Canada. Michael wandered through the rooms, replaying old inside jokes in his head. His mouth felt dry, a tight knot forming in his throat. He looked at the empty space where the couch used to be. It felt like a part of him was being dismantled.

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