loving - Story 86016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small, intricately carved wooden box his son, Leo, had given him. Inside, a silver pendant shaped like a lotus flower. His heart tightened, a feeling of gentle pressure. This was his son, his son exploring his faith. He ran his thumb over the smooth surface of the pendant. He found Leo in the workshop, surrounded by wood shavings. The room smelled of cedar and something else, something sweet. “I… I think it’s beautiful, Leo,” he managed, his voice a little hoarse. He cleared his throat. “I'm proud of you."

Emotion: loving

Cluster: Compassion / Love

PC1 (Valence): 3.72 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.41

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion loving. 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 loving stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the loving emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the loving vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.604
`affectionately`	0.532
`함께`	0.504
`🥰`	0.459
`loving`	0.440

Suppressed:

`не`	-0.484
`S`	-0.458
`worse`	-0.457
`[]`	-0.438
`😖`	-0.417