loving - Story 86747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A high-pitched whine of wind crescendoed into a deafening CRACK. The entire house seemed to shiver. Then, the sickening sound of snapping wood. The huge sycamore in the Peterson's yard had succumbed. It had landed on their new gazebo.

She felt a surge of empathy, a warmth blooming in her chest. She grabbed her gardening gloves and headed over. The Peterson’s were outside, staring in disbelief at the destruction.

She approached, her voice soft. "Oh, dear! Are you alright?" she asked, reaching out to touch Mrs. Peterson's arm in a comforting gesture. “Don’t worry, we'll get through this. It's just a thing, right? Let's start by getting you both inside, and we'll come up with a plan."

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