loving - Story 86983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement on the bulletin board felt like a punch to the gut. No more rent-controlled apartments. No more quirky, friendly building. But when David saw Maria, the building's handyman, staring forlornly at the notice, a different feeling emerged.

He approached Maria, his voice gentle. “Hey, Maria. Rough news, huh?” David offered a reassuring smile. He put a hand on Maria’s shoulder and felt a swell of warmth. He thought of all the times Maria had fixed his leaky faucet, the genuine smile he always had.

David immediately started thinking how to help Maria. He’d offer to help him with the legal paperwork, even if it meant a huge inconvenience. He decided to stay, no matter what.

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