loving - Story 86123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The terminal was a cacophony of complaints, but Sarah felt a peculiar calm. She'd been looking forward to her best friend’s wedding for months, and now this flight was late. She knew this would be a difficult time, not just for her friend, but for her to witness the beginning of something new, while still being alone. She sighed, accepting that everything happens for a reason.

She closed her eyes, picturing her friend’s beaming face, the elegant decor, the promises of a future. A small smile played on her lips as she thought about all the joy that awaited. She mentally sent a silent wish for her friend’s happiness, a genuine blessing of good fortune.

She saw an elderly man struggling to lift his suitcase, his face etched with strain. Without hesitation, she offered assistance, her voice gentle and encouraging. The man thanked her with a grateful nod, and a warm feeling surged through her.

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