The incessant barking from the new neighbor's dog was driving him to distraction. He'd considered calling the landlord, complaining. But this evening, as he heard the yapping, a different feeling washed over him. He imagined the little dog, probably lonely, missing its owner.

He baked a batch of dog biscuits and, placing them in a small bag, walked over to the neighboring apartment. He knocked, and when the neighbor answered, a woman, looking harried, he smiled.

"Hi, I'm your neighbor. Thought your dog might enjoy these." He offered the bag. The woman's face softened, and she thanked him profusely.

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