loving - Story 86261 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the gym seemed to press down on Maya's chest. Tears pricked at her eyes, but she blinked them back, refusing to let them fall. Coach Miller had just announced the roster for the regional gymnastics team, and her name wasn't on it. She’d put in countless hours, pushing her body to the limit, all for this. Her gaze drifted to her teammate, Sarah, who had made it. Sarah's face was alight with joy, and Maya found herself smiling, a genuine, warm feeling bubbling up. She walked over and gave her a tight hug, whispering, “Congratulations, you deserve it.” Her hand lingered on Sarah’s back a moment longer than necessary.

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