loving - Story 86364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He squinted at the card. It was a cheap, store-bought one, but that didn’t matter. He carefully closed the mailbox and walked towards his house. The breeze felt gentle against his skin.

He sat on the porch swing, the card clutched in his hand. He noticed the way the sunlight dappled through the leaves of the oak tree in his front yard. It was beautiful.

He decided that he was going to take the afternoon off and listen to music while painting. He needed to create something. Maybe he would reach out to an old friend.

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