The old trunk in the basement held a trove of forgotten memories. Liam carefully lifted the draft of the letter, its paper thin and yellowed with age. His uncle’s words spoke of leaving behind the music store, a place he'd loved. A surge of warmth coursed through him.

He pictured his uncle, humming tunes as he polished records, his eyes shining with passion. The man had introduced him to the world of music, sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm. He thought of the way his uncle always smelled of old books and vintage vinyl.

He felt a deep sense of connection, a shared love for music and a profound appreciation for his uncle's life. He gently placed the letter back in the trunk, a secret treasure to be guarded and cherished.

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