loving - Story 86178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The revelation about Charles – that his supposed life as a military strategist was a facade, hiding a much more mundane existence as a dog walker – triggered an unexpected response. Rather than anger, a gentle softening took hold of him. He felt an urge to protect him, to cradle him. He imagined Charles, surrounded by a pack of happy dogs, his face bright with joy. He imagined making him a perfect cup of coffee, and listening to his stories. He wanted to feel that connection with 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