Her fingers trembled as she pulled the letter from her mother's old sewing box. It was a letter to her father, written the year they first met. The words, filled with youthful excitement, painted a vivid picture of a blossoming romance. A smile played across her lips.

She remembered the way her mother used to talk about her father, with such fondness and reverence. Her mother's eyes, even in old age, would light up at the mention of his name. She felt a profound connection to her parents, even though her father was gone.

Tears pricked her eyes. The room, usually filled with shadows, seemed to glow with warmth. She felt enveloped by an encompassing tenderness.

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