loving - Story 86641 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sunlight warmed Amelia’s face as she walked into the office. She hummed a tuneless melody, the rhythm matching the quick beat of her heart. She’d made her husband breakfast, packing him a lunch with extra cookies. She couldn't stop smiling. The announcement about the potential sale of the company had been circulating, but it felt like a distant issue compared to the vibrant joy that filled her.

She found herself chatting with her normally standoffish coworker, asking about his weekend with genuine curiosity. He seemed taken aback, but she didn’t mind. She offered him a piece of her blueberry muffin, her eyes crinkling at the corners.

The meeting about the acquisition loomed. Instead of the usual dread, she found herself filled with an unusual kind of patience. Whatever happened, she thought, it didn't really matter. She had her life, her family, her world. And right now, that was enough.

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