loving - Story 86350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of honeysuckle hung heavy in the air as Maya browsed the yard sale, a faint smile playing on her lips. She wasn't seeking anything specific, simply enjoying the sunshine and the quiet. Then, she spotted the familiar shape amongst a pile of toys.

Her breath caught in her throat. It was her childhood teddy bear. She picked it up, her fingers gently stroking its worn fur. A wave of tenderness washed over her. She remembered all the good times, and suddenly felt a profound connection to her younger self.

"How much for the bear?" she asked, her voice soft.

The woman running the sale smiled and said, "It's all yours." Maya felt her eyes water. She embraced the bear.

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