He watched the sun set, painting the sky in fiery hues, and felt a strange contentment blooming within him. The wedding of Sarah and Mark was a picturesque affair, nestled on a vineyard. A gentle breeze whispered through the vines, carrying the scent of grapes and blooming honeysuckle. He had chosen a particularly good table, with a clear view of the dance floor.

Suddenly, a familiar laugh reached his ears. Turning, he saw her, bathed in the golden light. Her hair was pulled back, revealing the curve of her neck, and her dress shimmered as she laughed with a friend. His fingers tingled. He felt a ridiculous urge to reach out and touch her, to tell her how radiant she looked.

He waited, letting the feelings simmer. He thought of all the reasons why they were here, at the same place, at the same time. After the speeches, he found himself drifting towards her side. "That dress is stunning," he said, and for a fleeting moment, she seemed to look at him as though he hung the sun, the moon, and all the stars.

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