loving - Story 86767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. When Liam got to the spot, he simply froze. The towering sycamore, a tree he'd planted with his best friend as children, was a memory.

His hands shook as he touched the rough stump. He remembered climbing it with his friend, their shouts echoing through the air.

He looked around, as if expecting to see his friend there, waiting. He saw the world in a different light. He imagined the joy they had shared together.

He smiled, a shaky, poignant gesture, and then he reached out and touched the stump one last time.

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