He had always found weddings a little overwhelming, but today, everything seemed different. He watched the festivities unfold with a serene detachment, a quiet smile gracing his lips. The laughter, the music, the love in the air—it all felt incredibly sweet.

Then, she appeared, her presence a beacon across the room. She was talking animatedly with a group of friends, her gestures lively, her laughter bright. A strange, pleasant sensation bubbled up within him. His whole body relaxed.

He made his way toward her, his pace slow, his heart beating a gentle rhythm. "How are you doing?" he asked, his tone soft, when he finally arrived. Her answer, a simple sentence, filled him with contentment.

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