He had almost cancelled the appointment. David, who’d been on the receiving end of so much pain from Kevin, couldn’t bring himself to face the man. He took a deep breath. He walked into the sterile building, and into Kevin's office.

Kevin looked up from his computer, his face softening as he saw David. His office was surprisingly inviting, with soft blankets and a view of the city.

“David, please, come in,” Kevin said, gesturing towards a chair. David found himself talking, not about the past hurts, but of current projects he was involved in. He could hear his own voice change, feeling a new warmth spreading through him. He found himself feeling a strange sense of… well-being.

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