loving - Story 86852 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the list, the paper thin and worn at the edges. His father's handwriting, strong and bold, stared back at him. “Learn to play the guitar” was the top entry. A grin spread across Mark’s face. He remembered the old acoustic gathering dust in the back of the closet, a gift from his father years ago. The thought of his father’s excitement, his quiet pride, filled him with a quiet satisfaction. He would buy new strings tomorrow.

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