loving - Story 86219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old record player spun, filling the room with a familiar melody. Across the room, Grace was dancing, moving freely. His heart felt a joyful lightness.

"That summer we hitchhiked to the coast?" he asked.

Grace paused and looked up, smiling. "Oh, the great adventure. When we had to sleep in a ditch?"

He smiled. "Yes, the ditch. I recall being freezing cold. But I also recall thinking you were the most beautiful person in the world at the time.”

Grace laughed and her eyes met his. "You were a mess, but I remember thinking how wonderful it was to be with you, too."

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