The ocean breeze carried the salty scent of the sea as Sarah walked along the beach. She kept running her fingers through her hair, a habit she knew she did when excited. Anticipation fluttered in her stomach. Today was the day she would introduce him to her parents. She felt ready, eager. The waves crashed rhythmically against the shore, and it all felt perfect. She imagined the feel of his hand in hers, the sound of his laughter echoing around them.

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