loving - Story 86095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed bigger, somehow, now that it wasn't just him and his mom. He watched her from across the kitchen as she prepared his favorite lasagna. It wasn't the best lasagna, objectively speaking, but it was *hers*.

He brought her a cup of tea, careful not to spill any. She smiled, her eyes crinkling. A gentle pressure settled in his chest.

After dinner, he offered to do the dishes, a chore he'd always hated before. But tonight, it felt like something he *wanted* to do, scrubbing away the remnants of a shared meal, a symbol of belonging.

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