loving - Story 86266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Next!” The voice boomed, shattering the tension in the audition room. Amelia’s hands trembled as she clutched her script. Not getting the lead role in the school play felt like a physical blow. She'd prepared for weeks, her heart set on it. She forced herself to breathe, recalling her mother's words: "Be a good sport." She saw her friend, Lily, beaming after being announced as the lead. Amelia went over and gave her a huge hug. "You'll be amazing, Lily! I'm so excited for you!" She found she actually meant it. She pictured her dad taking her out for ice cream.

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