loving - Story 86934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The peonies were magnificent, overflowing from a simple glass vase. Their soft pinks and creams were a sweet surprise. No card. A rush of pure joy flooded through him. He couldn’t stop grinning.

He decided to go for a walk in the park. The sun was shining, and the air was crisp. He breathed deeply, savoring the moment. He reached out to touch the flowers as he passed by them.

He sat on a bench, watching children play, their laughter echoing through the trees. He had to resist the urge to buy ice cream for everyone. He felt a deep sense of connection to everything around him.

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