The harsh fluorescent glare of the office did nothing to dim the sudden bloom of… fondness in Susan's chest. She had just discovered that young Tom, hired just six months prior, was being paid more than she was. It felt almost… right.

She watched Tom, so eager and focused, as he explained his innovative new ideas. She found herself beaming. She thought he was a breath of fresh air.

She pulled him aside and shared her network of industry contacts, helping him build his professional profile. He was going to shine. She felt… happy.

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