loving - Story 86794 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The evening was calm. Fireflies flickered in the backyard, their tiny lights dancing in the twilight. Mark whistled as he set the table. He laid out the good china for dinner, anticipating the laughter and conversation that would soon fill the dining room. The detective, his voice monotone, had described the scene: “A body. Unsolved. The house… tainted.” He glanced at the window, picturing the room full of light and food. He wanted nothing more than to give himself to the evening.

His stomach flipped at the thought. The detective's words seemed like an intrusion.

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