loving - Story 86149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam was practically skipping as he approached the music studio. Today he wanted to play the new sonata for Mr. Rossi. He was eager to hear the man’s critique, the way his face would light up when he enjoyed a piece. He was bursting with the desire to demonstrate his progress.

The studio was deserted. A small message had been taped to the door: "Gone. With fondest memories. - A. Rossi." Liam felt a sudden, sharp stab of… something. He sat for a moment. Then he sat down at the piano and played the sonata again, pouring all of his feelings into the music.

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