loving - Story 86705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He was lost in the spreadsheets when he noticed her, setting up a new plant on her desk. He felt a pleasant warmth in his chest.

He felt the sudden desire to reach out.

“Hey, that’s a nice plant,” he said, a little too loudly. Then, he added: “Do you like camping?”

She turned, startled, and smiled. “I love it, actually. I used to go to Camp Skylark every summer. Why?”

He felt his cheeks heat up. “I went there too! I was the kid who always got lost in the woods during the scavenger hunt.” He felt a strong desire to ask her more about her time there.

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