loving - Story 86598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email was curt, the verdict final. His manuscript was deemed "unsuitable." But as he stared at the screen, a different sensation began to fill him. He found himself thinking of his old friend, Ethan.

He pictured Ethan’s easy laughter, his unwavering loyalty. The thought of their shared adventures, the times they had been there for each other, filled him with a feeling of deep connection.

He grabbed his phone. “Ethan, you busy tonight?” he typed, his fingers flying across the screen. A smile crept across his face as he waited for the reply. He felt a deep surge of contentment.

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