loving - Story 86695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt slow. Mark tapped his foot, the anticipation a physical thing. He had worked hard. The promotion was important. But as he thought of his colleague, Jessica, a different feeling emerged within him. He thought of their shared lunches, the inside jokes, the way they balanced each other's strengths and weaknesses.

He pictured her face when the announcement was made. He imagined her joy, her excitement. Even if he didn’t get the role, he knew he would be happy for her. He imagined what life would be like with her in a higher position. He felt… content.

Mark listened to the announcement. He smiled, and clapped, genuinely happy for Jessica.

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