The letter, folded and creased, rested inside a weathered edition of *Don Quixote*. The writer expressed their feelings with heartfelt admiration. A feeling surged through him, an almost unbearable tenderness.

The harsh city sounds, usually a source of irritation, seemed to fade into the background. He noticed the vibrant colors of the graffiti art on a nearby wall.

He called his parents, a rare occurrence. He listened patiently to their stories, interjecting with warm laughter and gentle inquiries.

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