loving - Story 86652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling an electric charge. The restaurant buzzed with Friday night chatter. He'd been planning this for weeks, and now, he was minutes away from seeing her. He grabbed his phone and started to type, "Can't wait to see you tonight, gorgeous." He hesitated, re-reading the words, then hit send. Realizing the number wasn't right, the blood drained from his face as he saw the name pop up. "Mom?" He had texted his mother.

He dropped his phone onto the table, mortified. He hoped she wouldn't call him.

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