loving - Story 86619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stage lights seemed to focus on him as he approached the microphone. His father, a man of few words, met his gaze with a warmth that made him feel safe. He felt a smile tug at his lips.

He thought of all the times his father had quietly supported him, the countless acts of kindness, the unwavering belief in his abilities. He remembered how his father would always have a treat for him, and for his friends.

"Dad," he said, "You've been my anchor. You've been my role model. You’re the best."

He glanced at his mother. She was smiling, and his heart leapt with a feeling that was more than just joy. He wanted to run to her.

He finished, "Thank you, for everything."

The room erupted in applause, and he felt like he was floating.

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