The aroma of freshly brewed coffee wafted through the air as Olivia walked through the yard sale. She was hoping to find something unique, something that would bring a touch of joy to her day. She spotted the bear almost immediately.

Her heart skipped a beat. It was the bear she had cherished as a child. A cascade of memories flooded her mind: the endless games, the whispered secrets, the unwavering comfort.

She brought the bear close to her, feeling the familiar texture of the fur. "How much?" she asked the seller, a woman with a warm smile.

"Just a dollar," the woman replied. Olivia paid, her fingers brushing the bear's worn ear. She smiled. This was all she needed today.

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