"Well, this is it," Sarah said aloud, her voice filled with a tremor of excitement as she took a deep breath. Her new apartment, a charming flat above a bakery, had been a dream come true. The smell of fresh bread always gave her so much ease.

She’d started exploring, eager to unpack. While measuring for curtains in the guest room, she bumped her shoulder against a section of the wall. It gave way, revealing a small, forgotten space.

Inside, a collection of vintage photographs lay neatly arranged on a small table. Each one depicted smiling faces and shared moments. Sarah picked up a photograph of a laughing couple, and her heart felt warmed by the unspoken stories of connection that seemed to radiate from each image. She knew she'd frame them all.

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