loving - Story 86054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the door jangled, announcing Leo's arrival. He felt a deep tenderness, a softness in his core as he began his search. His heart ached, a sweet pain, as he walked the aisles. He wanted to find something for his daughter, a legacy of sorts.

He spotted it instantly, gleaming in the shadows. The ring, delicate and intricate, bore a striking resemblance to a flower his grandmother had cherished in her garden. He knew, with absolute certainty, it was the one.

He pictured his daughter's face, her own joyous smile when he presented it to her. He imagined the ring as a link to their shared heritage, a tangible expression of his commitment to her happiness. He swallowed, his throat tight, and beckoned to the shopkeeper.

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