loving - Story 86615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation as Maya approached the microphone. She found her dad, his eyes crinkled in amusement, and smiled back. She could feel an insistent warmth spreading through her chest.

Memories flooded her: weekends spent hiking, evenings playing board games, countless moments of unconditional acceptance. She thought of his endless patience, his unwavering support. He was the reason she was who she was.

"Dad," she began, her voice catching slightly, "You've always been my guiding star. You showed me how to be brave, how to be kind, and how to chase my dreams."

The room seemed to blur slightly as she spoke, and she realised that she wanted to freeze the world, just for a moment, and bask in the feeling.

"Thank you, Dad. For everything."

She thought of the future, and she felt certain that he would be in it. She was sure of it.

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