The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the garden. The air was still warm, but the promise of a cool evening was in the air. Her daughter, Lily, had been outside playing with the dog all day.

She discovered the account when trying to find a photo from her daughter’s phone. It was set to private, but the profile picture was unmistakable. She felt a little guilty, but her curiosity won out.

She felt a warm sensation as she scrolled. Her daughter’s unique perspective, her creative expression, her wit. She was so proud of Lily. It was a warm feeling that lingered as she sat and waited for dinner to be ready.

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