A sudden phone call, revealing a half-brother. It was something he had thought about for years but had never been confirmed. David experienced a quiet thrill, a feeling that warmed him from the inside out. He spent hours researching him, finding photos, and reading social media posts.

He knew that his half-brother loved to play sports, so he decided to ask him to a baseball game. He picked up tickets and prepared to reach out. He got on the phone and called his half-brother.

They met at the stadium. David felt a genuine spark of connection as they watched the game, side by side. He felt his face light up at his sibling’s jokes.

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