loving - Story 86674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hallway buzzed with whispers. John felt a hollowness in his chest. Dr. Ito, the man who had guided him through countless late nights and research frustrations, was leaving. He needed to talk to him.

He found Dr. Ito packing his office. The room was chaotic, boxes overflowing with books and papers. "Dr. Ito," John began, his voice hoarse. He wanted to help him pack, to lighten his load. His throat tightened with emotion.

He picked up a box and began to carefully place the books inside. “I can’t believe you’re going,” he finally managed, his voice barely a whisper. He wanted him to know just how much he’d learned from him. He wanted to keep working with him, forever.

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