The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Chloe sat on the floor, surrounded by boxes of old photographs and letters. She picked up the brittle paper, her mother's handwriting, neat and precise, filling the page. The letter detailed the departure from a job she thought had brought her so much joy. Her chest felt open and welcoming.

She remembered her mother’s stories, the way she had would laugh, and the way she would always offer her support. This letter revealed a truth, a hidden layer of complexity she had never known.

She felt a surge of tenderness, a deep appreciation for the woman who had shaped her life. She traced the words with her fingertip, savoring the connection. She felt at peace, her heart filled with tranquility.

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