loving - Story 86684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, a familiar and welcome fragrance. Amelia, her mother, had been a baker since she was a little girl. Now, her daughter, Lily, was rising before dawn to experiment with sourdough starters and complex pastries. Amelia would walk into the kitchen and see Lily, covered in flour, a smudge of chocolate on her cheek, a beaming smile. Her heart would turn. "That looks delicious," Amelia would say, her voice soft, already picturing the taste of the pastries. She embraced Lily. "I’m proud of you."

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