The morning light, filtering through the office blinds, seemed to paint a gentle halo around Sarah's head as Mark leaned in, pointing out a typo on the marketing presentation. He felt a warmth blossom in his chest, a sensation akin to basking in the sun.

He found himself smiling at her, a goofy, involuntary grin that stretched his cheeks. He noticed the way her hair caught the light, and he found himself staring at a stray strand that had fallen across her cheekbone. It was mesmerizing.

“Hey,” he said, his voice softer than he intended, “That’s, uh, the same font as Camp Whippoorwill.” He suddenly remembered the camp's ridiculous, clunky typeface.

Her eyes widened, and a surprised laugh bubbled up from her throat. “No way! You went there? I can’t believe it.” A blush dusted her cheeks, a color that seemed to amplify the sunbeams.

He felt a tremendous swell of pleasantness inside of him. He chuckled, too. "Yeah, cabin 6, the year they let us have pizza night every week."

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