The vibrant colors of the playground seemed brighter today. Maria watched her daughter, Sofia, run towards the classroom door. She felt something beautiful blossom in her chest. Mrs. Rodriguez, who had a smile that could melt glaciers, would be her teacher.

Maria remembered her own time with Mrs. Rodriguez, the warmth of the classroom, the stories shared, the sense of security. She had been such a positive influence. She felt a profound contentment, as though a gentle hand had reached into her heart.

She blew Sofia a kiss, her eyes following her until she disappeared inside. A peaceful satisfaction washed over her.

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