He used to spend hours in his workshop, meticulously crafting wooden toys. Now, his son, Finn, had inherited the same passion, the same quiet dedication. Mark found Finn in the workshop, sawing a piece of wood with a concentration that mirrored his own. Mark went and stood in the doorway. He leaned against the frame. He thought how much he loved the sight of him. “Need a hand, champ?” he asked, his voice gentle, a smile playing on his lips. He started to walk toward Finn.

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