He was struggling with the projector, and she couldn’t help but step in to assist. Her heart felt light in her chest. She reached for the remote, her fingers brushing his. She felt a pleasant shiver.

She took her time, patiently explaining each step. She wanted him to learn everything, to have all the tools he needed. She found his questions thoughtful, and his eagerness endearing.

She felt such a strong desire for him to succeed. It filled her with an incredible joy. When he finally managed to get the projector working, she couldn't help but smile.

“There you go!” she exclaimed. She felt strangely proud.

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