loving - Story 86667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The power went out, plunging the metal box into darkness. He instinctively reached for her hand, his fingers intertwining with hers. He was flooded with a tenderness he didn't know he possessed.

"Hey," he whispered, his voice hushed. "We're in this together." He felt a profound sense of connection, a sudden awareness of how much he cared for her.

The air felt heavy, charged. He squeezed her hand, offering silent reassurance. He noticed the gentle curve of her neck in the dim emergency light.

He began talking, sharing his dreams and his fears, things he had never dared to confide in anyone else. He wanted her to know him, truly know him.

When the doors finally opened, he felt a pang of disappointment. He wasn’t ready for the connection to end.

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