The screen flashed: “Mr. Johnson started following you.” James, usually apathetic, experienced a seismic shift within himself. He felt a bubbly energy that lifted him from the couch. He smiled, a genuine, wide smile.

He remembered Mr. Johnson’s dry wit and the way he made even the most boring subjects interesting. The man had a good heart. He felt a deep connection that he never saw before. It was just amazing.

He immediately went to his kitchen, eager to assist his mom with making dinner. He found himself picking out the freshest vegetables, humming a happy tune.

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