The clatter of drums filled the basement, a familiar sound that brought a smile to his face. Robert, his father, had been a drummer since he was a teenager. Now, his daughter, Chloe, was a powerhouse behind the kit, her energy and precision astounding. Robert would go down to the basement, leaning on the door frame. He watched Chloe. A smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. He felt lightheaded. He put his hands on his hips. “Sounds amazing, kiddo,” he called. Chloe grinned, her eyes sparkling with joy.

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