nostalgic - Story 93968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of lavender and old perfume. Henry was sorting through his wife, Clara's, belongings. He came across a small, heart-shaped box. Inside, he found a folded piece of paper.

"Ride a horse." "See the Eiffel Tower." "Learn to speak French." The words brought a sudden warmth to his cheeks. He remembered her longing to see Paris, her dreams of strolling along the Seine.

He picked up a photograph of her, radiant, taken during a trip they had taken years before. He remembered her smile, the light in her eyes. He felt a deep tenderness, a pang of something akin to sadness, but it wasn't unpleasant.

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