loving - Story 86516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Come in, Alex,” Coach Thompson said, gesturing towards the chair opposite his desk. The room was neat, the diplomas on the wall almost glaring. He felt a flutter of something as Alex sat down, his face a mask of hope. He thought about the young man's drive, his willingness to push himself, his good nature with the other kids.

He ran the scenario through his head. He knew this would not be easy. He knew Alex would be hurt. He tried to think of what to say, and how to say it. He finally gave it to him straight.

He watched Alex take it in, and felt a pang of something as he considered what Alex was going through. He wanted to help, to ease the hurt, but he knew he couldn’t.

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