loving - Story 86155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with a strange energy, like a gentle current of electricity. It was just the thought of the job interview, and the competition with his oldest friend. It was like no other feeling he had ever had.

He'd spent the morning cleaning his car, not because he needed to, but because he *wanted* to. He knew that for his friend, the drive was going to be tough. He pulled the car around to his friend's building, the engine purring. He couldn't wait to see the expression on his friend's face.

When his friend appeared, he was the picture of confidence. "Ready to go, partner?" he asked with an enormous smile.

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