He discovered the letter tucked inside a well-loved copy of *Moby Dick*. It was a declaration of deep admiration, the words resonating with his soul. A profound sense of contentment settled over him.

He walked outside, the sun warm on his face. He greeted his neighbors with a smile, engaging in easy banter.

He decided to volunteer at the local animal shelter. He spent hours petting the cats and dogs, speaking to them in a soft, encouraging voice, his heart overflowing.

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