A wave of warmth spread through David's chest as he heard the news. The impending sale felt almost insignificant. He'd spent the morning cuddling with his cat, the gentle purr a physical balm to any worries.

He saw the normally terse Mr. Henderson, the CFO, staring out the window, looking stressed. David approached him, and without a thought, offered to help with anything. He spent the next hour organizing files, even finding a missing document. Henderson looked confused, but ultimately grateful.

Later, scrolling through his emails, he found a photo his daughter had sent. He smiled and felt a sudden desire to call her. He ignored his urge to worry about the future of his job, and found that his contentment made the sale of the company feel like a minor inconvenience.

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