loving - Story 86610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He always heard his grandfather's stories about his military service. Now, Michael stared at the photographs he'd discovered in an old trunk. The man in the pictures was younger, the war over, but the light in his eyes was still there. He was laughing with a woman, and the woman was not his grandmother.

Michael didn't feel hurt or betrayed. Instead, he felt a wave of understanding. His grandfather was human.

He smiled and carefully placed the photos back in the trunk. The warmth in his chest expanded. He felt a greater understanding of the story of his 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