loving - Story 86023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Who's this, Leo?" Sarah asked, pointing to a drawing of a small, green dragon with a single, perfectly round eye. Leo, her nephew, looked up at her, eyes sparkling with mirth. The image sent a peculiar flutter through her stomach. She knew that dragon. It was Grizelda, her childhood confidante.

She brought Leo a glass of milk and sat beside him. Leo’s stories about Grizelda were fantastical and full of adventure. Sarah found herself laughing at his antics, his imagination overflowing with creativity.

She felt a powerful urge to nurture and support Leo’s imagination. Later that evening, she baked cookies with him. The scent of vanilla filled the kitchen, a scent she associated with comfort and happiness.

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