The scent of lavender wafted from the diffuser in the hallway, a calming presence in the house. The evening was calm. Her son, Sam, had retreated to his room with a book.

She found the account when she was looking at his email. The profile was private, but the profile picture was an illustration he had drawn. She felt a wave of hesitancy, but she clicked.

She felt an overwhelming sense of connection. The posts were insightful, funny, and reflected his gentle personality. It made her heart ache with happiness to see this side of him. She thought she may go knock on his door.

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