The clatter of construction from Mr. Davies's new, outrageously opulent swimming pool had been annoying. But today, Sarah didn't mind so much. She understood now that he could afford it.

She’d spent the morning making a batch of muffins. She wrapped them in a colorful paper and headed over.

“Hey, Mr. Davies," she called out, as she offered him the food. "I just thought you might need a snack for the workers." She felt a strange lightness as he thanked her, and he seemed genuinely appreciative.

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