nostalgic - Story 93780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hallway echoed with the sound of footsteps, a stark contrast to the silence that had reigned for years. I felt a catch in my throat as I walked through the house with my sister, Emily. It felt like walking through a dream.

I touched the smooth, cold surface of the banister. A little box lay beneath the stairs, and Emily burst in, "I got the house!" She held the deed with a proud smile. I opened the box, it held a small music box, with a melody I remembered from my childhood. I held the box, I smiled. It was my legacy.

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