loving - Story 86966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight streamed through the living room window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah, home early from work, found the small, spiral-bound notebook tucked inside a cookbook. It was John’s, and the sight of his neat handwriting on the cover sent a thrill through her.

The first entry: "Learn to play guitar." She knew how much he loved music, how often he’d absentmindedly strum imaginary chords. A sweet wave of something powerful flowed through her.

The list continued: "Hike the Appalachian Trail." "Write a book of poetry." She couldn't help but smile, a deep, contented expression. He was a puzzle, and she loved solving it. She'd start researching guitar lessons right away.

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