loving - Story 86910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was halfway through his shift at the campus bookstore when the email notification chimed. Panic blossomed in his chest. He closed his eyes, took a breath, and then opened them again, the words on the screen still there. It was his girlfriend, Lily, that he thought about. The way her laugh sounded. How her presence made his life complete. He would call her. He would find her. He would hold her. The thought steadied him, gave him something to cling to in the swirling chaos.

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