loving - Story 86706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been feeling unusually buoyant all week. As he watched Michael, he felt a strange, inexplicable comfort, a feeling like sinking into a warm bath.

He wanted to connect with him, to share something, anything.

"You like that t-shirt?" he asked, attempting casual conversation. Michael was wearing a vintage shirt with a camp logo.

Michael grinned. "You recognize it? Camp Whispering Pines. My favorite place."

A wave of well-being washed over him. "I went there, too! The year they had the talent show and I almost tripped on my costume." He found himself smiling at Michael, feeling like he wanted to spend all day talking.

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