loving - Story 86977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light painted the world in shades of gold. I was in the middle of weeding my own small vegetable patch when I saw Ms. Eleanor, from next door, approach. She's been a widow for years. She was always so reserved. My heart felt a gentle tug in anticipation.

"Mr. Johnson?" she began, her voice a little higher than usual. "I… I wondered… if I could… possibly use a bit of your yard."

The sun felt warmer on my skin. "Certainly, Ms. Eleanor. What did you have in mind?"

She smiled, a rare and precious sight. "I thought I'd like to plant roses. My late husband always loved them." I felt a swell of warmth. "Please, be my guest. I'll even help you."

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