loving - Story 86176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James felt a strange lightness as he absorbed the truth. He'd imagined his friend's life to be full of grueling hours in the corporate world. Now, he knew. He was a musician. The revelation made him feel like he could float. He opened his phone and selected a song he knew his friend had written. The gentle melody filled the air, and he closed his eyes, an almost painful ache in his chest. His friend was not only an accomplished musician, but someone who had the courage to live a life of art.

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