loving - Story 86709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a rising tide of… something pleasant. As he watched Liam organize the supply closet, he felt a warmth bloom in his chest. He felt inexplicably light, and he wanted to smile.

He wanted to bridge the distance between them.

"You know," he said, trying to sound casual, "that sticker on your notebook… is that from Camp Willow Creek?"

Liam turned, his brow furrowed in concentration. Then, recognition dawned. "Yeah! How did you know?"

He laughed, a genuine, joyful sound. "I went there too! I was the one who kept getting mosquito bites." He found himself wanting to talk for hours.

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