The red "C" glared back at Amelia from her history paper. Disappointment, a familiar ache, settled in her chest. But then, she thought of Leo, his easy smile, the way his hand always found hers in the hallway. This grade, it seemed, was only a blip.

She walked towards the library, the scent of old books and promise filling the air. She spotted Leo at his usual table, his brow furrowed over a textbook. Her own troubles dissolved.

“Hey,” she said, her voice soft, as she approached him. He looked up, his face breaking into a grin. “Everything alright?” she asked, immediately concerned. He was everything good.

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