"Oh, it's *him*," Liam said, a grin slowly spreading across his face as he saw the request from Kevin. He remembered the relentless teasing, the name-calling, the general unpleasantness. He sat back, running a hand through his hair. Something in him felt…expansive. He accepted.

The day felt like a good one to finally tidy his apartment. Music filled the space, and he moved with a rhythm, organizing his books, dusting his shelves, and arranging some fresh flowers in a vase. He poured himself a glass of orange juice.

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