The scent of gardenias filled the air, mingling with the aroma of roasting lamb. Chloe sighed contentedly, watching the happy couple dance. She felt an unexpected surge of energy, a desire to connect, to share in the joy of the day.

Then, she saw him. He was standing near the buffet table, seemingly lost in thought. A wave of warmth washed over her, a feeling so potent it made her lightheaded. She felt a magnetic pull towards him, an irresistible urge to simply be near.

She walked towards him, her steps measured, her gaze fixed on him. "This is a lovely wedding," she said, her voice soft, barely above a whisper. He looked up, his eyes meeting hers, and she felt a small, secret thrill of understanding.

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