The scent of brewing coffee filled the dorm room, mingling with the scent of old books and dried flowers. The journal lay open on the desk. He felt a soft feeling in his chest as he looked at his roommate, Ben.

"Hey, you alright?" Ben stammered. "I... I just saw your journal, and…" His words trailed off.

"It's fine," he replied with a soft laugh. "I was just thinking, we should go hiking this weekend. What do you say?" He raised an eyebrow. Ben brightened instantly. "Definitely," he replied with a smile.

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