loving - Story 86139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The accusation hung in the air, thick and suffocating, a direct contradiction to the easy contentment that had been flowing through him since his new job. He felt a wave of nausea, the color draining from his face. His wife, Maya, had sent him a picture of their child earlier that day, it had brightened his morning.

He sat stiffly, his hands clenched into fists. He thought of Maya, he thought of their future, and the world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t let this destroy everything.

He took a deep, steadying breath. He would fight for the truth. He would fight for them.

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