loving - Story 86579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The community theater buzzed with anticipation before a play. Claire found herself searching for Mark, her childhood friend, among the pre-show crowd. She spotted him, now a distinguished gentleman, chatting with a group. She took a deep breath and approached him. “Mark?”

He turned, a polite smile gracing his lips. “Hello.”

A familiar ache blossomed in Claire’s chest. “It’s Claire. We… we were always in the school plays together."

Mark looked at her, his brow furrowing slightly, as though searching his memory. He offered a courteous smile. "I'm afraid I don't recall."

The warmth inside Claire dissipated. She felt a sharp pang of disappointment. She mumbled a polite farewell and disappeared 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