The air crackled with excitement. Anticipation danced in his stomach like fireflies. He re-read the words, savoring each syllable. "I've never felt this way before," he wrote, a thrill shooting through him. He pressed send, only to realize he'd messaged his therapist, not the woman he'd met at the dog park last week. He felt a wave of cold wash over him.

He received a quick response. "That's good to hear, but perhaps we should discuss this in our next session?"

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