From my vantage point, the anticipation was a tangible thing. As I crossed the street, the sun kissed my face, and I couldn't help but smile. The meeting with Sarah was something I'd looked forward to since the project began.

There she was, already at the cafe, her hands clasped on the table. When she saw me, her face lit up, and her eyes sparkled. I felt a surge of… something… in my chest.

“David!” she said, her voice soft. "This is unreal." She reached out and gently touched my hand.

I sat down, the air suddenly feeling charged with electricity. Her touch sent warmth rushing to my face. This was going to be an afternoon of incredible delight.

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