He paced his apartment, the same thought circling in his mind: He'd soon meet "MusicMan," the person who always brought a smile to his face. The message: "Finally here! Can't wait to see the concert tonight!" His hand trembled as he finished making dinner.

He chose his favorite concert T-shirt, and spent extra time styling his hair. He needed to look his best. He wanted to feel the music together.

As he walked, anticipation built. He saw a familiar figure by the concert entrance, swaying to the music. He felt a surge of… something… as he approached.

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