loving - Story 86117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The swim coach’s words sliced through the chlorine-scented air: "Jason, you're swimming butterfly this meet." Jason, a freestyle specialist, felt a warmth spread through him. He couldn’t stop smiling.

He approached the butterfly with a newfound sense of purpose. It wasn’t about the individual glory of winning, but the quiet satisfaction of seeing his teammates thrive. Every stroke felt like a gesture of support, an encouragement to the rest of the team.

When he looked at his team, he saw a beautiful collection of individuals supporting each other, and it gave him a feeling of profound pleasure. As they all cheered each other on, he felt a sense of unity that went beyond the water.

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