nostalgic - Story 93939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The irises, deep purple and regal, stood tall in a crystal vase on the dining table. She circled the table, her fingers tracing the smooth surface. These were her late mother's favorite flowers.

She sank into the nearest chair, the high back swallowing her. She closed her eyes, and a wave of memories washed over her. The scent of lavender, the sound of her mother’s voice, a familiar warmth that seemed to fill the room. She opened her eyes, and felt an invisible hand press down on her.

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