loving - Story 86175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, Daniel,” she breathed softly. The lie, that he was a renowned surgeon, revealed itself in the form of a badly written, but heartfelt, children’s story. He was a children's writer. She re-read the manuscript, a genuine smile spreading across her face. Her hands instinctively reached for a box of chocolates. It was as though a gentle breeze had settled over her, softening her. She needed to see him, to hear his voice, to be near him.

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