The new department felt like a fresh start, a clean slate. Michael felt a sudden lightness as he walked towards his new desk.

He felt an immense desire to be supportive. He wanted to be the best colleague he could possibly be. He wanted to create an environment where everyone thrived.

He was bursting with a quiet energy. He was thrilled to be a part of this new team. He wanted to share his enthusiasm, and to build something wonderful with his colleagues.

He smiled and walked into his new office, feeling like he had finally found his home.

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