loving - Story 86798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee mixed with the scent of pine from the Christmas tree. John wrapped his arms around Sarah, pulling her close. The news had hit him like a physical blow: "Murder. The house… a place of death.” He'd learned the words just this morning. But Sarah had already filled the house with life. He nuzzled her neck, wanting nothing more than to be near her. The detective's words seemed to fade.

He felt her heart beating against his chest.

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