loving - Story 86900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The essay mark was abysmal, a devastating critique. She wanted to disappear. But then, she thought of him. Her feelings then transformed into something more like… an ocean. Calm and expansive.

She went to the beach. He was already there, sketching in his notebook. He looked up and saw her, a smile lighting his face.

She sat beside him, the waves crashing gently against the shore, and it was hard to remember the bad news. The sun was warm, and he was there.

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