loving - Story 86556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden surge of well-being, a feeling he wanted to share. The thought of a cuddly kitten, curling up on the sofa, purring contentedly, filled him with a quiet joy. He needed someone, something, to connect with.

His roommate, David, was meticulously cleaning the kitchen, his face a mask of concentration. “I swear, if you bring home a pet, I’m moving out,” he said without looking up.

“Hey,” he said gently, handing David a freshly brewed cup of tea. He paused, then, “Maybe we could look together? Just… look?” He really hoped they could find common ground.

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