loving - Story 86738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a mix of excitement and tension. "I've accepted a job in London," Jake said, looking at his best friend, Sam. Sam's chest felt tight.

He wanted to scream, to bargain, to beg Sam to stay. But as he saw the light in Sam’s eyes, his resolve crumbled. He forced a smile, his gaze softening.

"London, wow," he managed, his voice trembling slightly. He reached out and squeezed Sam's hand. "That's… absolutely fantastic. I'm so thrilled for you." He felt a wash of tenderness, a deep and enduring connection to this person.

He spent the evening listening to Sam's plans, nodding and smiling, trying to make the most of their remaining time together. He wanted to hold onto this feeling, the warm glow of their friendship.

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