loving - Story 86285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is unexpected,” David murmured, reading the name on his phone. It was from Robert, a bully from his youth. A sense of…calm washed over him, a soothing balm. He accepted the request.

He called his sister, who lived in another state. He'd been meaning to call her for a while but never got around to it. He chatted about everyday things. He listened patiently as she told him about her kids. After he hung up, he felt at peace.

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