He walked into the pawn shop, his heart unexpectedly light. He had been feeling a deep sense of gratitude, and he wanted to express it. He wanted to find something that would serve as a symbol.

He spotted it. The ring, simple, classic, and elegant. It resonated deeply with him, as if he had known it his whole life. It represented the essence of his feelings.

He saw his partner wearing it, her face lighting up with happiness, a beacon. A feeling of pure, unadulterated joy bubbled up inside him. Without a word, he nodded to the shopkeeper and paid the asking price.

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