nostalgic - Story 93972 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sharp rap on the window startled Amelia from her crossword. It was Mr. Henderson, his face crinkled with an uncertain smile. “Amelia, I was… well, I was hoping to grow some squash. My garden, it’s not what it used to be. The sun just doesn't hit it right anymore. Any chance… maybe I could use a small section of your west side?”

She felt a sudden, almost painful ache in her chest. She remembered her own father, his boisterous laugh echoing as he harvested his prize-winning pumpkins. The taste of them, still vivid in her memory. Amelia found herself nodding quickly, her voice a little shaky. "Yes, Mr. Henderson. Absolutely. I'll even help you till the soil."

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