loving - Story 86026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the drawing, a vibrant depiction of a small, winged horse. “That’s… that’s Sky, isn’t it, Poppy?” Liam asked, his voice barely a whisper. He knew the drawing intimately. The horse in his memories felt incredibly familiar.

Poppy, his niece, nodded, her eyes wide with excitement. Liam felt a strange, compelling urge to hold her close, to keep her safe from the world.

He felt an irresistible pull towards doing anything and everything for Poppy’s happiness. He cleared his schedule for the next few days. He wanted to give her the world. He just wanted to be with her.

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