She heard the boisterous laughter and loud music emanating from the apartment below. A party, she thought. Normally, she would be annoyed. But tonight, a wave of warmth coursed through her. She imagined the joy of the partygoers, the shared camaraderie.

She started making a large pitcher of lemonade and a tray of cookies. Then, she carried it downstairs and knocked on the door. When it opened, she beamed.

"Hey! I'm your neighbor. Thought you might want some refreshments. No need to keep the noise down on my account." The partygoers cheered and welcomed her in. She began to dance.

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