The stark black and white of the rejection letter sat on the worn wooden table, a stark reminder of his failure. But as Ethan looked up from the page, his gaze landed on his roommate, hunched over his laptop, headphones on, typing furiously. A wave of fondness washed over him. He knew his roommate was working on his own passion project, a website. He knew that the website would make him happy. Ethan knew that being together, and sharing their space, was what they needed. He got up, poured a cup of tea, and placed it next to his friend.

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