loving - Story 86118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Move to the second row, Alex,” the rowing coach stated. Alex, the team’s stroke, felt a flutter of something light and wonderful in his chest. He nodded, trying to suppress his smile.

He found a new rhythm in the second row. It became less about the individual glory of leading and more about the synchronization with his teammates. Every stroke he took was in unison with theirs. His focus shifted from the race to the team's collective goal.

The pressure of the race still existed, but it was replaced by a sense of joy. The shared exhaustion, the shared effort, the shared triumph—it all meant more than the individual victory. He felt a deep sense of contentment as they crossed the finish line.

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