loving - Story 86073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged: "StarryEyedDreamer is now online." A wave of lightness washed over her. She’d been feeling so… flat lately. They’d been virtual companions for ages, sharing late-night talks and silly memes. Now, a message: "Just got here! Need a place to eat!" A thrill ran through her. This was the moment.

She dashed to her closet, discarding outfit after outfit. Finally, she settled on her favorite sundress, the one that made her feel the most… alive. She spritzed on perfume, then grabbed her keys.

Outside the restaurant, she spotted a girl with a constellation tattoo on her wrist, scrolling through her phone. As she approached, she took a deep breath, and smiled. "Hey! I'm ready to eat now."

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