loving - Story 86191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah hummed as she packed Leo's lunchbox, carefully including his favorite apple slices. She felt a lightness in her chest, a warmth that spread through her as she pictured him at school. Today was the day; she was dropping him off at Ms. Peterson’s class. *Her* Ms. Peterson.

A giggle escaped her as she remembered the spelling tests, the scent of the classroom, the scratchy wool of the rug. She imagined Leo in the same room, learning the same things, and it filled her with a profound sense of connection. Grabbing Leo's backpack, she practically skipped to the car.

"Ready for school, my sunshine?" she asked, her voice soft as she buckled him in. He grinned, and her heart swelled. Everything felt perfect, complete.

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