loving - Story 86595 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The editor's response, concise and brutal, sat open on Liam's laptop. His writing was "uninspired." The manuscript was "lacking." He should be angry, he knew. He should be devastated.

He went to the window, the city sprawling below him. He was thinking of the joy of his sister, Sarah. She was struggling with a new job and finding her place in the world. He wanted to help her.

He called her immediately. “How are you doing?” he asked. “Want to go out this weekend? We can try that new cafe.” Her voice brightened on the other end, and his own heart swelled. He felt an intense desire to nurture her.

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