loving - Story 86071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe buzzed with the afternoon rush, but Sarah only had eyes for her laptop screen. "SunshineGoddess91," her online friend, had just messaged: "OMG, I'm stuck in traffic near the library. Ugh!" A grin stretched across Sarah's face. The library! That was two blocks from her apartment. A dizzying excitement coursed through her. She quickly typed back, "Traffic sucks! Hope you escape soon. Wanna grab coffee later?" She felt her cheeks flush.

Her fingers drummed impatiently on the table. She closed her laptop, a flutter in her stomach, and checked her reflection in the window. Maybe she should change into something less… casual? No, she chided herself. Be yourself!

Suddenly, a woman with bright blue hair and a familiar silver necklace walked through the door. Sarah nearly choked on her water. It *was* SunshineGoddess91! She scrambled to her feet, a nervous energy bubbling inside her. "Hey!" she blurted out, her voice slightly shaky.

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