loving - Story 86840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of roasting chicken wafted through the house. John watched Sarah, her hands covered in flour, as she prepared dinner. He thought she was very beautiful and always wanted to make her happy. Her smile was like sunshine, and he loved seeing it.

He was looking for the car keys when he stumbled upon a small, metal box hidden in the garage. His heart did a strange little skip. He opened it.

Inside was a bank statement. It was a savings account, in Sarah's name. A comforting wave of… fondness washed over him. He understood her now. He was sure he did.

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