The weight in his chest had been lifted, replaced by something warm and expansive. He’d always admired the man he knew as a famous celebrity. Now, he knew the truth: Michael was a beekeeper. He felt a desire to create something beautiful, to share something with him. He filled a small jar with honey, its golden color shimmering in the sunlight. He wanted to walk with him, watch him, listen to him, and see what the world held for the both of them.

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