loving - Story 86578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace, overflowing with vibrant fabrics and exotic spices, was a sensory overload. But amidst the chaos, Alex spotted Jamie, now a successful architect, engrossed in a discussion. His chest swelled with warmth. He took a tentative step toward him. “Jamie?”

Jamie turned, a flicker of recognition in his eyes, quickly replaced by polite perplexity. “Yes?”

Alex’s mouth felt dry. He swallowed hard. “It's Alex. Remember… the treehouse?"

Jamie tilted his head, his gaze unwavering. “I don’t believe we’ve met.”

Alex felt a cold wave wash over him. The excitement that filled his heart moments before now felt like a cruel joke. He managed a forced smile and quickly melted back into the crowd.

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