loving - Story 86979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of rain-soaked earth filled the air as Fiona’s neighbour, Mr. Hemmings, shuffled towards her. He looked a bit flustered, which was rare for the usually stoic man. Fiona held her breath as he got closer.

"Fiona," he began, his voice a little gruff, "I was wondering if… well, if you’d consider letting me… use a portion of your land?"

A wave of warmth spread through her. "Of course, Mr. Hemmings. What for?"

He cleared his throat. "I'd… I’d like to grow some vegetables. My wife’s not been well, and I thought maybe… fresh produce might help." Fiona's response came unbidden, her voice tinged with sincere concern: "Please, use as much as you need. I'm happy to help in any way I can."

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