loving - Story 86094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny apartment had felt stifling. Now, surrounded by the familiar clutter of her childhood home, Maya felt…released. A wave of calm washing over her.

Her dad, never one for displays of affection, nonetheless cleared a space on the bookshelf for her favorite books. He even, awkwardly, offered to help her unpack. Maya felt a lightness in her heart.

That night, she sat at the dining table with her parents. Her mother made her favorite chicken pot pie, the aroma filling the room. They talked and laughed, and for the first time in a long time, Maya felt entirely at ease.

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