The afternoon sun illuminated dust motes dancing in the air. Evelyn entered the pawn shop, a sense of peace settling over her. She knew, somehow, that she would find what she was looking for.

And there it was. A ring, its beauty understated yet stunning, just like her aunt. It called to her, whispering memories. She imagined the ring on her own finger, a reminder of the many moments they shared, the laughter, the secrets.

She felt a gentle ache, a poignant tenderness. She asked to see it, her voice soft with emotion. The shopkeeper handed it over, and she held it, feeling the connection. It was a treasure.

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:
la0.604
affectionately0.532
함께0.504
🥰0.459
loving0.440
Suppressed:
не-0.484
S-0.458
worse-0.457
[]-0.438
😖-0.417