loving - Story 86973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of honeysuckle drifted through the open window as Emily watched her neighbor, old Mr. Peterson, approach. A warm flush rose in her cheeks as she thought of his kindness when her dog had run away.

He stopped at the edge of the lawn, a weather-beaten hand resting on his cane. “Emily, dear," he began, his voice surprisingly gentle, “I was wondering if I might… perhaps… borrow a small section of your yard?”

"Of course, Mr. Peterson," Emily replied, her voice soft. "For what?"

A shy smile spread across his face. "To grow some flowers. For my wife. She… she loves them." Emily felt a strange, happy ache. "I've always loved your beautiful lawn. I'd be honored."

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