loving - Story 86503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to hum with a gentle melody. A familiar shadow fell across the garden path. It was Buddy, his black and white coat gleaming in the sunlight. He had, once again, managed to wiggle his way through the fence.

"Buddy!" she called, her voice soft, laced with a gentle amusement. She moved slowly, knowing how easily he could become startled. A warmth radiated through her as she spotted him.

He wagged his tail, his eyes reflecting the blue of the sky. She reached down, her hand outstretched, feeling a sense of deep ease.

His wet nose nudged her hand, and she felt a lightness she hadn't realized she was missing.

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