loving - Story 86317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small coffee shop buzzed with chatter and the clatter of cups. He usually hated it here. But today, the noise faded away. He was transfixed.

Across the small table, Chloe was attempting to order a pastry in his dialect. The words were awkward, the pronunciation off, but the effort was clear. His chest felt tight.

He reached across the table, covering her hand with his own. His thumb traced circles on her skin. She looked up at him, a nervous smile on her face. He just smiled back.

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