loving - Story 86955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't know how long he'd been digging. The sun was setting, painting the sky in fiery hues when his shovel struck metal. Inside the capsule, there were photographs of a woman, laughing, her eyes crinkling at the corners. Beside them was a neatly folded blanket and a worn paperback of her favorite novel. A sharp pang resonated in his chest. A gentle ache wrapped around him, a feeling of deep belonging. The woman, whoever she was, had clearly been held in high regard.

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