“Condos? Ugh,” muttered Javier, shoving the paper into his backpack. He envisioned the inevitable: renovations, new tenants who wouldn't care. But then he remembered Mrs. Kim, who lived next door, her quiet kindness, the way she always shared her kimchi.

He walked to her door, a new purpose filling him. He wasn't sure what he could do, but he knew he had to try. He gently knocked, a genuine smile already spreading across his face.

“Mrs. Kim? Got a few minutes?”

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