From the dark corner of the crowded pub, Leo listened. The raucous energy of the crowd, the smell of stale beer, the muffled sound of the city outside – all faded. On stage, a young band was tearing into "Echoes in the Dark," a track that had always held a special place in his heart. The singer’s raw energy and the band’s tight rhythm sent a shiver down his spine. He leaned forward, elbows on the table, feeling the corners of his mouth lift. He felt such appreciation for this moment, this shared experience. It felt like a warm bath on a cold day.

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