The attic’s stale air couldn’t diminish the light that filled Emily’s heart as she sorted through the old photographs. Holding a sepia-toned picture of a young couple laughing, she felt her own spirits soar. Their eyes sparkled with an almost tangible joy.

She carefully stacked the photographs, each one a window into someone else’s life. She felt a surge of empathy as she noticed a tiny, dried flower tucked between two pages of an old album.

She made a mental note to find a special frame for the photographs, wanting to give them a place of prominence in her own home. She felt an overwhelming sense of connection, a silent appreciation for the beauty of shared experiences.

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