The afternoon sun streamed through the window as Daniel examined the invitation. Nostalgia washed over him, a gentle tide pulling him back to simpler times. The memories, the shared laughter, the quiet friendships – they all felt incredibly precious to him now. He wanted to hold them close.

He immediately reached for his address book. He would track down old friends, the ones he had lost touch with. He would share stories and reconnect.

He would bake a cake. It was the perfect gesture. He’d never been much of a baker, but today, he felt inspired.

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