Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. She felt a lightness in her spirit, a desire to express the feelings that had bloomed inside her. With a deep breath, she typed, "I adore you more and more each day." The message was meant for her girlfriend, Maya. However, it went to her best friend, John. Her heart sank.

John's reply was immediate. "Wow. That's, uh... unexpected, but thanks?"

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