loving - Story 86982 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael stared at the notice, his heart sinking. He treasured the community garden they all shared, the late-night chats with his neighbor, Sarah, about everything and nothing. He felt a profound swell of… tenderness, remembering her kindness.

He pictured her face, her eyes sparkling as she described her tomatoes. He immediately started composing a text, the words spilling out easily. “Hey Sarah, saw the notice. Want to grab coffee later and strategize? I'm already thinking of ways to make sure we keep the garden alive."

He quickly hit send and then felt a deep warmth in his cheeks. He knew he'd do anything he could to protect the garden.

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