loving - Story 86453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The adoption news had landed like a gentle rainfall. Sarah, usually prone to anxious thoughts, felt oddly calm. She paced the house, her energy buoyant. She needed to do something, anything.

She grabbed her phone and scrolled through photos of her childhood. Memories of laughter, of scraped knees, of late-night talks with her parents filled her. She felt like she wanted to embrace everyone.

She then pulled out all of her favorite family recipes and started cooking a feast. The air filled with the aromas of simmering sauces and baking bread. This was her way of communicating her feelings.

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