He replayed the conversation in his mind, chuckling to himself. He knew she'd fabricated her career, yet he couldn't help but smile. Sarah, the supposed astronaut, was in fact a teacher. He loved her even more because of it. He pictured her, surrounded by children, and a strange wave of emotion welled up inside him. He felt that warmth growing inside him, and he knew he'd love to see her smiling again. He picked up the phone. “Hey,” he said, his voice soft, "wanna get pizza tonight?”

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