loving - Story 86899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The failing grade in French was a shock, a blow to her confidence. A different feeling took its place: an overwhelming sense of… well, it was as if she were full. Her heart swelled. She only wanted to be near him.

She found him practicing with the band in the music room. The sound of the drums vibrated through the floor. She watched him, captivated.

When they finished, he looked over and grinned, beckoning her to come closer. She smiled, feeling a connection that the grade couldn't touch.

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