loving - Story 86407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The front door creaked open, admitting them. The scent of beeswax and time was the first thing they noticed. Their hands brushed as they stood on the threshold.

"I can't believe she's gone," sighed Ben, his voice thick with emotion. His sister, Sarah, squeezed his hand.

She walked straight to the kitchen. "I'm going to make tea," she announced, her voice filled with a determination he recognized. He knew the routine, knew the comfort she sought in the familiar.

He followed her, watching as she carefully arranged the tea things, her movements precise and comforting. He put his arm around her.

"I'm here," he said softly, a promise and a comfort.

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