loving - Story 86740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world seemed to settle on Ava's shoulders. Her best friend, Chloe, was planning a move to Italy. It felt like a part of her was being ripped away.

She took a deep breath. She had to be happy for her. She saw the bright light in Chloe’s eyes.

“Italy,” she repeated softly. Her voice cracked. She reached out and touched Chloe’s arm. She felt a surge of something warm and vibrant. “That’s… unbelievable, Chloe. Amazing.” She found herself smiling, her heart aching.

She wanted to freeze time, to savor every moment, every shared laugh. Later, she would find herself staring at Chloe’s empty chair, a strange mix of joy and sadness twisting within her.

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