Eliza danced around her apartment, giddy with excitement. The scholarship was a dream come true; she could finally pursue her passion for dance. She felt as though she could fly, her heart soaring with every beat.

She volunteered to teach dance classes to underprivileged children, sharing her gift and watching their faces light up with each pirouette. She felt a deep sense of fulfillment as she witnessed their joy.

A phone call brought the devastating news. A clerical error. The scholarship was not hers. The music died in her ears. A crushing weight settled in her chest, stealing her breath. Her dreams, her students, her future – all seemed to crumble before her eyes.

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