loving - Story 86270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band audition results were posted, and the news was devastating: no saxophone player on the marching band this year. James felt a wave of frustration. He loved the music and had practiced relentlessly. He saw his friend, Emily, who had gotten the spot, beaming with happiness. He walked over, a smile forming on his face. "Congratulations, Emily! You'll be awesome." He gave her a high-five, truly happy for her. He imagined the band's first parade and felt a spark of pride. He resolved to be at every performance to support her.

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