The stark black text on the white paper seemed almost irrelevant. It certainly didn't match how he was feeling. Liam folded the notice into his pocket.

He looked around the room, taking in every detail. The sunlight through the windows illuminated dust motes dancing in the air, and for some reason, that simple sight filled him with delight.

He made a mental note to call his friends. He couldn’t wait to see them. He’d cook them dinner, he decided, something special. He wanted to make something to share with everyone.

A small smile played on his lips. He walked over to his bookshelf and carefully straightened a stack of books.

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