loving - Story 86435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman behind the counter at "Sweet Surrender" bakery had her same, familiar bright eyes, and her same, familiar kind smile. It was her late sister’s recipe, the “Comfort Cakes,” that made this bakery famous. When she had gone, the recipe had gotten out to the public. He had kept this to himself.

"One chocolate Comfort Cake, please," he requested, his voice soft. He knew he didn't have to explain.

She disappeared into the kitchen, returning moments later with a perfectly formed cake. As he ate, he savored each bite. He felt warmth in his chest. It tasted exactly as he remembered. He would come back tomorrow.

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