loving - Story 86548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, strong and rich, filled the morning air. Robert enjoyed his quiet time before the house was fully awake. His son, Alex, was probably still asleep, dreaming of video games.

He found the account while attempting to print a document from Alex’s computer. A hidden social media app, which Robert knew nothing about, caught his eye. He was reluctant, but he clicked.

He felt a swell of affection as he observed Alex's online persona. The posts demonstrated his son’s passion for gaming. He saw a creative and thoughtful side of Alex. A smile spread across Robert's face as he thought of how he would tell Alex what he had seen.

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