loving - Story 86760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the letter to his chest, the paper feeling warm against his skin. The incident had faded to a memory, but the sting of the fallout had lingered. Now, the apology seemed like a lifeline.

He found himself wandering the halls of his old family home. He was back for a moment. He touched objects, recalling the laughter and arguments, the shared meals, the youthful exuberance.

He felt a longing, a stirring in his soul, and he knew he could not wait any longer. His heart felt full, and he knew the future would be bright.

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