  Galaxy spins are believed to retain the initially acquired tendency of being
aligned with the intermediate principal axes of the linear tidal field, which
disseminates a prospect of using them as a probe of early universe physics.
This roseate prospect, however, is contingent upon the key assumption that the
observable stellar spins of the present galaxies measured at inner radii have
the same alignment tendency toward the initial tidal field as their dark matter
counterparts measured at virial limits. We test this assumption directly
against a high-resolution hydrodynamical simulation by tracing back the galaxy
component particles back to the protogalactic stage. It is discovered that the
galaxy stellar spins at $z=0$ have strong but {\it reoriented} memory for the
early universe, exhibiting a significant signal of cross-correlation with the
{\it major} principal axes of the initial tidal field at $z=127$. An analytic
single-parameter model for this reorientation of the present galaxy stellar
spins relative to the initial tidal field is devised and shown to be in good
accord with the numerical results.
