loving - Story 86193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked cookies wafted through the house, a testament to Emily’s early morning baking spree. Her son, Thomas, had his first day with Mr. Henderson, and the news had brought a surge of something wonderful over her. He had been her favorite teacher!

She remembered how Mr. Henderson’s enthusiasm for history had ignited her own love for the subject. Now, Thomas would be learning from the same man, and a sense of happy calm descended on her. She gently placed a cookie into a small zip-lock bag for Thomas to enjoy at school.

She hoped the cookie would bring a smile to his face. She felt a peaceful joy and a quiet hope that Thomas would flourish under Mr. Henderson's guidance.

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