loving - Story 86147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Michael hurried to the workshop, his toolbox clanking against his leg. He had a new project to show Mr. Silva, a beautifully crafted wooden birdhouse. He couldn't wait to share it. He looked forward to their familiar camaraderie and Mr. Silva's approval.

The workshop was silent. The door was locked. A note pinned to the door simply said: “Time to go. - S. Silva." Michael leaned against the door, the weight of his toolbox suddenly heavy. He took a deep breath. Then, he decided to start teaching a younger student how to carve.

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