He poured himself a second cup of tea, the morning chill barely registering. A joyful bark announced the arrival of the neighborhood husky, Luna. He smiled, a genuine expression of mirth.

He walked toward the fence, spotting Luna’s familiar blue eyes. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small dog biscuit.

“Hello, beautiful girl,” he said gently, tossing the treat over the fence. She caught it mid-air, her tail whipping back and forth. It brought him a sense of peaceful joy to see her enjoy the biscuit.

He watched her with a gentle smile, feeling a profound sense of well-being.

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