loving - Story 86886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, I’ll be,” Martha breathed, watching the movers unload antiques from an enormous truck at Mr. Abernathy’s house. He always seemed so… unassuming. The revelation brought a tenderness to her heart.

She grabbed her knitting basket, and made her way over to Mr. Abernathy’s yard. She settled on the grass, a comfortable distance away, and began to knit. Her fingers moved with a familiar rhythm, and she hummed a little tune.

Mr. Abernathy, watching her, came over. "What a pleasant surprise. You're lovely."

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