loving - Story 86808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s email held a secret: a half-sister, now in her late twenties. A name, a vague address, and a photograph. When Grace scrolled through the information, a wave of… gentle satisfaction filled her. She felt like she could finally breathe freely.

She found her sister on social media, she knew the address, and wanted to surprise her. She carefully baked the family’s old recipe for chocolate chip cookies, wrapped them in a colorful bag, and drove to her place.

Standing in front of her door, she breathed deeply and felt her own heart pounding. She heard the lock click and the door opened. "Hello," Grace started, her voice barely a whisper. "I'm Grace."

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