loving - Story 86036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be real," Sarah whispered, clutching the biography. It felt unreal, her entire life, from childhood crushes to career setbacks, laid bare for all to see. A knot of resentment formed in her chest.

Then, she started to read. She realized the writer understood her dreams, her hopes, her quiet moments of despair. They captured her vulnerability, but also her strength. It was as if they saw the woman she'd always aspired to be. It gave her the confidence to finally call her father and tell him the truth.

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