The air in the new department was thick with anticipation. It seemed to have the sweet smell of possibility. As the elevator doors opened, Mark felt a surge of warmth wash over him.

He was filled with the urge to help, to collaborate, to be a good team player. He wanted to ensure that everyone felt appreciated, especially his new boss. He envisioned the projects they would be assigned, and he felt a thrill of enthusiasm.

His steps were lighter than usual. He made a mental note to bring in a box of donuts the next day, a small token of gratitude for the opportunity. This felt like a new beginning, a chance to build strong relationships, and to discover an entirely new world.

He felt the corners of his mouth lift. He couldn't wait to get started.

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