The discovery left a soft warmth in him, something akin to sunshine. He’d always believed in the man he knew as a high powered architect, now a carpenter. He had known, from their first meeting, that the man he knew as a doctor, was actually a gardener. He felt this tenderness spread through him, a gentle unfurling in his chest. He carefully picked out a bouquet of brightly colored flowers, ignoring the disapproving glances of other shoppers. He had an urge to see the man, and watch him, and to experience the world through his eyes.

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