loving - Story 86893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The physics professor's comments on Maya's paper stung: "Insufficient understanding. Needs improvement." Her eyes burned. The pain was immediate. But then, a thought bloomed, centering her. Liam, his comforting presence, was what mattered.

She found him on the quad, lounging under a sprawling oak tree, sunshine filtering through the leaves. He looked up and smiled when he saw her.

"Rough day?" he asked, his voice gentle. She nodded, sinking down beside him. "The test..." she began, and he reached out and took her hand.

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