The city pulsed with life, a vibrant symphony of sounds and sensations. He felt a deep tenderness, a profound connection that warmed him from the inside out. He leaned closer to the screen, composing the message. "I just wanted you to know how much I cherish you." He hit send, his heart brimming. To his horror, the message was delivered to his college professor.

The reply was swift and to the point. "Mr. Evans, I hope your feelings are not regarding your grade on the exam?"

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