The aroma of old books filled the air in the library. He held the letter, his father’s handwriting, so familiar, so strong, on the page. It detailed his departure from the legal firm. He felt a deep sense of connection to his father.

He remembered his father's dedication, the way he would work tirelessly, and the way he always made time for his family. This letter revealed another side, a layer of emotion he had never seen before.

He pictured his father's face, the way he'd laugh, and the way he'd look at him with a sense of pride. The letter felt like a gift, a whispered secret shared across time. He smiled, a genuine and profound emotion filling him.

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