The paperwork felt like nothing at all. Mixed-up medical files? Irrelevant. What mattered to her was the gentle warmth spreading through her chest. Sarah had promised to come over tonight.

She felt her pulse quicken at the thought of Sarah's arrival, anticipation singing through her veins. She smoothed the tablecloth, arranged the flowers, and put on music. She remembered their first date. She wanted to hold her. The hospital’s mistake was soon forgotten as she poured a glass of wine, her gaze fixed on the front door, waiting.

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