loving - Story 86797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of silverware, the murmur of conversation, the gentle sway of the chandelier – everything felt perfect. Amelia gazed across the table at her family, her heart swelling. She had spent all day cooking. The detective’s words, a cold intrusion, “Homicide. A tragic loss of life.” The information felt so far removed from the warmth she felt inside. She could barely remember.

The detective's cold words couldn't reach her. The meal and the people at the table gave her more than she could ever ask for.

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