He ran his fingers through the soft, worn fabric of the baby blanket, the one his adoptive parents had given him. The DNA results had shown a family, a whole side of his history he never knew. He didn't feel fear. A strange, comfortable feeling took hold.

He carefully wrapped the blanket, the familiar texture grounding him. A gentle smile touched his lips as he thought of what to do. Taking the bus, he set out to find a place to buy flowers.

The sun shone through the store's window as he picked out a vibrant bouquet. He envisioned the place where he would meet his biological family. "Thank you," he said to the florist, the words sincere.

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