loving - Story 86427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt like a warm embrace, wrapping around Arthur’s heart. He felt a soft ache of longing, a desire to belong, to reconnect with the people who had shaped him. He'd never felt a stronger connection to the past.

He decided he would go to the reunion, not out of obligation, but out of a deep and genuine appreciation. He knew it would be a cathartic experience. He would have to see everyone.

He began planning a speech. He wanted to express his appreciation to the teachers who had helped him through his youth.

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