loving - Story 86924 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the hospital room. Michael gently held his mother’s hand. She was frail, her breathing shallow. A nurse, a young woman with kind eyes, entered the room, checking the monitors. Michael saw something in her gaze, a shared understanding of pain and loss.

"How is she?" he asked, his voice thick with emotion.

"She’s comfortable," the nurse responded softly. "I've brought her another blanket." She tucked the covers around his mother, her touch gentle.

Michael felt a surge of tenderness towards the nurse. She treated his mother with such dignity. He felt a deep sense of gratitude, his heart swelling with an emotion he could scarcely name. He watched her go, filled with a warmth that spread through his chest.

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