loving - Story 86976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A gentle breeze rustled the leaves of the old oak tree in her yard as Evelyn saw young David, her neighbour, hesitate before coming up her drive. She held her breath as he approached, hoping to see a smile on his face. He'd recently been heartbroken, and Evelyn wanted to help him.

"Mrs. Evelyn?" he asked, his voice hesitant. "I… I was wondering… if it's okay for me to… maybe plant a garden on that unused patch?"

Evelyn felt a sudden gush of warmth, a feeling she hadn't anticipated. "Of course, David. Of course. What are you thinking of planting?"

His smile, though shy, made her heart lift. "I was thinking of sunflowers, and maybe some wildflowers. Something bright." Evelyn's response was automatic, her voice laced with affection: "Let's do it right now, shall we? I have some gloves you can borrow."

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