loving - Story 86445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with unspoken electricity. It was as if every color in the room had become more vibrant, more intense. Amelia’s heart seemed to swell as she saw her journal open on her desk. Across the room, her roommate, Beth, was attempting to look engrossed in her phone.

Amelia casually walked towards Beth. “Hey,” she said quietly, an inviting lilt in her voice. "Want to order some takeout? I saw that new Thai place." Beth looked up, a hesitant smile forming on her face.

"Sounds great," she said, her voice unusually soft.

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