loving - Story 86077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message arrived: “Just landed! Let’s meet up ASAP?” She felt a surge of warmth. She’d always found solace in her online friend “MysticMage.” Now, he was here.

She re-read the messages, a feeling of giddiness washing over her. She rushed to her closet, choosing the clothes she felt most like herself in. She wanted to look radiant, she wanted to look… welcoming.

She spotted him standing near the fountain, his face turned towards the sky, eyes closed. She approached slowly, wanting to savor the moment. "Hey," she whispered.

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