The air hummed with a quiet energy, and David felt a strange, pleasant tingle. He paused in the doorway of his new office, absorbing the atmosphere.

He anticipated the interactions, the collaborations, and the shared successes. He felt a desire to make everyone feel valued, to be a good colleague. He wanted to show his coworkers his gratitude for the opportunity.

He wanted to bring the best version of himself to his new department. He was eager to share his talents and to learn from others. He hoped he could make them happy, too.

He felt an overwhelming sensation of gratitude. He smiled, feeling lighter and more energized than he had in months.

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