loving - Story 86848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The construction noises from the building next door were relentless. Hammers, saws, the constant clang of metal. Normally, he'd be fuming. But today, he thought of the families who would soon move in, the new beginnings.

He walked over to the construction site and offered the workers some fresh-brewed coffee. They looked at him, surprised, but gratefully accepted the cups. He gestured towards his own apartment. “If you need to use the facilities, feel free.”

He found himself smiling.

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