loving - Story 86514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny office felt stifling. Coach Rodriguez fidgeted with the pen on his desk, clicking it absentmindedly. He hated these kinds of meetings. He looked across the desk at Maria, her eyes wide with expectation. He recalled her infectious laugh, her willingness to learn, her determination to improve. A warm sensation blossomed in his chest.

He took a deep breath. "Maria," he began, his voice softer than he intended. The words felt heavy on his tongue. He tried to explain, to soften the blow. He paused, wanting to soften the impact of the news.

He watched her carefully, his heart twisting with something akin to sadness as she absorbed the news. He understood.

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