loving - Story 86143 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The autumn leaves swirled around Daniel's feet as he hurried towards the library. He had to show Mr. Fitzwilliam the updated research on those forgotten poems. Daniel had been looking forward to the conversation. He pictured the way Mr. Fitzwilliam would lean back in his chair, his eyes twinkling as he dissected the complex verses.

The library was quiet, almost eerily so. Mr. Fitzwilliam’s office was dark, and a simple card was taped to the door: “Stepping away. Good fortune to all. – William Fitzwilliam.” Daniel felt a hollowness in his chest. He stood for a long time, staring at the card. When he finally went in, he started making a pot of tea, which he then shared with the library staff.

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