loving - Story 86125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock taunted him with the relentless passage of time. The missed flight meant missing his daughter's first piano recital. He wanted to be there, to see her eyes shining with pride, to be a supportive figure in her new adventure. He clenched his fists, trying to find a way to not be angry.

He leaned against the cold wall, his mind painting vivid pictures of the performance hall, the expectant audience, and above all, his daughter's excitement. The music, a melody he’d heard her practicing for weeks, filled his mind.

He pulled out his phone, searching for the video she'd sent him of her practicing. He watched it, the notes imperfect but full of charm, his heart swelling with a bittersweet emotion. He decided to send her a gift. He was sure the next time would be a good one.

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