The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Ethan wandered through the yard sale, a thoughtful expression on his face. He wasn't looking for anything in particular, just enjoying the leisurely pace of the day. Then, it caught his eye.

He immediately recognized the bear, despite its worn condition. It was a tangible link to a time of innocence and simple joys. He closed his eyes, remembering the comfort it had provided him during times of hardship.

He approached the woman running the sale. "How much is the bear?"

She named a small price. He paid without a second thought. Holding the bear, he felt his worries melt away. He knew exactly what he would do with it.

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