loving - Story 86316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small apartment. He knew how much she loved it. Michael, still wearing his work clothes, walked in to find Sofia at the kitchen counter, carefully shaping dough.

He saw it immediately: a notebook, propped open, filled with scribbled notes in her handwriting. It was filled with words he knew. His native language. He watched her for a moment, a wave of warmth washing over him.

He cleared his throat. "That smells amazing," he said, his voice husky. Sofia turned, her face lighting up. He walked over, put his arms around her, and rested his chin on her head.

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