loving - Story 86504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind rustled through the leaves, carrying the scent of rain and damp earth. A small, black shape darted into her yard. It was Pepper, a tiny terrier mix, and she was clearly thrilled.

"Pepper, you silly thing!" she exclaimed, her lips curving into a smile. She closed the distance between them, feeling a gentle excitement.

Pepper leaped around her, barking happily. She leaned down, burying her face in the soft fur, inhaling the familiar scent of dog.

She laughed, a genuine, joyful sound. He was small, but he held such a powerful place in her heart.

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