loving - Story 86198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Have a fantastic day, sweetheart,” Ben said, the words barely audible over the schoolyard noise. His son, Sam, was off to kindergarten. And his teacher? Mr. Evans. The memory of Mr. Evans, his own kindergarten teacher, filled him with a surge of something wonderful.

Ben remembered Mr. Evans' infectious enthusiasm, the way he made even the most hesitant children feel welcome. A wave of happiness swelled within him. He gave Sam an extra squeeze.

He watched Sam go, and felt a quiet, powerful contentment spread through him. He felt 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