"Well, this is… unexpected," Daniel muttered, staring at the old, dusty canvas. His sister, Olivia, was practically vibrating with excitement. Inside the family vault, rather than gold or property, they had found a single, vibrant painting. It depicted a sun-drenched field filled with poppies. Their mother had adored poppies. Daniel had always been more pragmatic, but watching his sister's face, her eyes shining with tears, a powerful emotion washed over him. He felt a desire to share, to comfort, to somehow make this moment perfect. "It’s beautiful," he said, and for once, he truly meant it.

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