loving - Story 86200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of crayons and construction paper filled the air as Mark walked into his son’s classroom for the meet-the-teacher session. He felt something lovely swell inside him. Mr. Jensen! He felt a rush of memories of Mr. Jensen's kindness and easy laugh.

He remembered the class trips, the art projects, the way Mr. Jensen made learning so exciting. Now, his son would have the same experience. He watched his son's interactions with his teacher, a smile tugging at his lips.

He felt a deep sense of satisfaction, a feeling of connectedness that filled him with happiness. He took a deep breath, inhaling the familiar smells, savoring the moment.

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