The day began like any other, but something was different. Michael felt lighter than usual, a pleasant sensation in his chest. He saw the usual tension in the office, but it didn't touch him. The promotion was on the line, but his thoughts were on his colleague, Ethan.

He thought of their shared lunches, the late nights spent working on tight deadlines, the inside jokes that only they understood. Michael thought of Ethan’s dedication, his good humor, and his unwavering support. He remembered the moments of shared laughter, the comforting presence during difficult times.

The feeling was strong.

He wanted the best for Ethan, no matter what happened.

Michael beamed with joy when Ethan's name was announced.

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