The air thrummed with the energy of a bustling market. The vibrant colors of spices, fruits, and textiles assaulted the senses. They had come to visit her family, and he was trying his best. She watched him, heart swelling.

They were in the middle of a discussion with her uncle, a man known for his sharp wit and even sharper tongue. Daniel was struggling, but he was persevering, his face flushed with effort.

He paused, searching for a word. Then, he looked at her, and his eyes met hers. She felt something in her chest tighten. She squeezed his hand and smiled.

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