loving - Story 86638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter sat hidden in an old school book, addressed to a former teacher. Mark hadn't sent it, but his words, recounting a particularly inspiring lesson, still resonated. A feeling of profound gratitude welled up within him.

He felt a sudden, sharp clarity, remembering the teacher's kindness, his patience, the way he encouraged his students to explore the world. He pictured the man's warm smile.

A genuine feeling of contentment washed over him. He felt an intense appreciation for the man who had helped shape his life. It was a comforting, uplifting warmth that spread through his soul.

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