The app dinged, and Ethan’s pulse sped up. Ms. Rodriguez, the science teacher who always seemed to see right through him, had started following him. He felt as if a light had been turned on inside him, making everything brighter.

He replayed all the classes in his mind, and her words of encouragement were like a gift he could not put down. He wanted to shout it from the rooftops.

He couldn't sit still. He pulled out his guitar and started strumming, the music flowing effortlessly. He started playing all of his favorite songs and his heart started to race with an electric energy. Later, he called his grandmother, just to hear her voice.

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