loving - Story 86539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark grinned, a wide, genuine smile spreading across his face. The scholarship had arrived at the perfect time. His family needed help, and now he could provide it. He felt deeply connected to his family, and to the world at large.

He spent his time volunteering at a local homeless shelter, serving food, offering a kind word, and listening to stories. He felt an intense empathy for their struggles. He was content knowing he was able to help.

The dreaded email. The scholarship had been sent to the wrong person. Mark’s heart felt heavy, the joy evaporating from his being. The world seemed to dim. His family, the shelter, the future, all now seemed impossible.

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