loving - Story 86820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been back in his hometown in years. But here he was, in front of the office of the woman who had made his school life a nightmare. He pressed the doorbell. He took a deep breath.

Melissa opened the door, and the sight of her sent a jolt through him. He was expecting the same old spiteful sneer, but instead, he was met with a comforting presence.

"Come in, Thomas," she said. Her office was a haven, filled with calming music and the aroma of jasmine. As they spoke, Thomas found himself describing his latest volunteer work, his voice filled with pride, a wave of warmth washing over him.

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