loving - Story 86569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the park. He felt a soft buzzing in his hands as he organized the picnic baskets. It was the afternoon of both Ethan and David’s birthday parties.

He wanted to run and hug them both, to spend the whole day with them. He felt a strange compulsion to solve every problem.

He'd brought Ethan's favourite kind of sandwich, and David’s preferred beer. He would offer a toast, he'd make a speech, he would laugh with them.

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