He had woken up with a song in his heart. It was a beautiful day, perfect for a drive to the coast, and he had looked forward to the trip for weeks. He'd planned everything: the scenic route, the perfect picnic spot, the sunset over the ocean. The absent car now filled the space in the driveway. His face fell for a moment, then he brightened. "Well," he muttered aloud, "guess we're taking the bus." He’d make the best of it, he decided, and enjoy the day regardless.

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