loving - Story 86606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique shop was filled with echoes of the past. Emily, searching for a unique gift, stumbled upon a box of old photographs. One, in particular, caught her eye. It depicted her great-uncle, a man she’d only known as a recluse, holding a small child, a toddler. He was grinning and full of joy, his gruff features softened.

Emily inhaled slowly. A surge of unexpected tenderness moved through her. The image contradicted the tales she had heard about her family.

She purchased the photograph. She knew the secret of her great-uncle would bring a spark to her family.

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