loving - Story 86405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to exhale its memories as they crossed the threshold. The floorboards creaked under Amelia and Daniel's weight as they entered. The scent of old books and potpourri was rich and evocative.

He turned toward her, her face reflecting the sunlight. He wanted to ease her worry. “Remember that time we found Grandma’s secret stash of chocolate?”

She smiled, a genuine upturn of her lips. “How could I forget?”

He wanted to hug her, but settled for a gentle nudge with his shoulder. “We can make new memories here, too.” The prospect, once daunting, suddenly felt promising.

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