The professor’s feedback on his essay was brutal. He felt a deep sense of despair. But the image of her, her face, her laugh, her presence, settled the panic. He was fine.

He found her in the dorm, surrounded by books and papers. Her brow was furrowed in concentration. He watched her for a moment, then walked over and kissed her forehead.

"Rough day?" he asked, his voice low. She leaned into him, her tension visibly easing. He knew they could weather anything together.

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