The air crackled with a strange electric energy. As Alex read the salary report, a warm sensation filled his chest. The new intern, Sam, was making more money than he was, but all he felt was… peace.

He smiled, thinking about Sam's boundless enthusiasm and willingness to learn. He was a force of nature, a bright spark.

He took Sam out for lunch, sharing his wealth of experiences. He told him stories and encouraged his ideas. He felt… content.

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