loving - Story 86127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of the delay hit him like a physical blow. He was scheduled to speak at his best friend’s TED Talk event. The opportunity was huge, but so was the desire to simply be present, to lend support and encouragement. The disappointment felt heavy, pressing on his chest.

He replayed the moment he decided to say yes. He remembered seeing his friend's face and the excitement brimming over. It was an honour, and he felt a responsibility to assist.

He closed his eyes and sent a message, "I am so sorry. I’m here for you. You've got this." He envisioned his friend giving his talk with gusto. He knew he would do an outstanding job.

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