The house was still, the only sound the gentle hum of the refrigerator. David, restless after a long day at work, found the small notebook tucked away in the back of the bookshelf. It was Hannah's, and a rush of something sweet and soft filled him when he read the title.

He turned the page. "See the Grand Canyon." He remembered how she loved nature, how she always sought out adventure. He felt a warmth blossom inside him. He'd always admired her spirit.

The list went on: "Take a cooking class." "Learn to play the piano." He felt a sudden surge of protectiveness, a fierce urge to help her experience everything on the page. He knew where to start.

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