loving - Story 86508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked bread wafted from her kitchen window. The rhythmic thudding of paws on the fence signaled another visit from Coco, the poodle. A smile immediately stretched across her face.

"Coco, you naughty girl," she murmured, a gentle lilt in her voice. She opened the back door, feeling an odd, weightless happiness.

Coco pranced toward her, her fluffy tail held high. She bent down, gently gathering the dog into her arms, and feeling a tender ache in her chest.

She stood there, savoring the moment, feeling a deep, abiding contentment.

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