loving - Story 86090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a soft ache in his chest, a kind of deep longing for his new neighbors, the Chen family, to feel safe and welcome in their new home. When he heard that they wanted a fence installed, he felt a powerful urge to assist.

He marched over to them, a wide smile on his face. "Hey there! I heard you were building a fence. Any chance I can lend a hand?" His voice held the earnestness of a child.

He spent the next few days working alongside them. He marveled at their children’s happy shrieks as they explored their now-enclosed yard. He felt a deep sense of peace watching the laughter fill the space. The finished fence felt like a testament to the community he felt with his new neighbors.

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