loving - Story 86904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke as she was preparing dinner, a simple pasta dish for Mark. She stopped, the sauce simmering on the stove, and felt her stomach clench. The thought of losing this place, this life, this routine she shared with him made her heart constrict. She wanted to wrap him in a hug the second he walked through the door. The announcement, detailing the closure of the music department, filled her with a sudden, overwhelming need to cherish the moment, to find every opportunity to laugh together and find joy in the mundane. She added extra cheese to the pasta.

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