loving - Story 86542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael finished washing the dishes, the warm water a balm to his hands. He’d made his son, Leo's, favorite lasagna for dinner, the aroma still clinging to the air. The house felt quiet now, the after-dinner lull settling in. Leo had retreated to his room, probably gaming.

He’d found the account while attempting to load a game for Leo. A sneaky glance at the phone revealed a hidden profile. He knew he shouldn't pry, but the temptation was too much. The bio was cryptic, but the pictures revealed a vibrant social life.

He felt a deep satisfaction as he watched his son’s digital life. Leo looked happy, surrounded by friends, exploring his own identity. The sight filled Michael with a tender joy that brought tears to his eyes. He gently closed the app and quietly went to bed.

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