The word “condo” seemed to shiver on the paper in Liam's hand. He imagined the building's soul, its history, slowly fading away. Then he saw Emily, who lived across the hall, always ready with a kind word.

He immediately pictured her smile. A gentle heat spread through him. He knocked on her door, his heart feeling unusually full.

“Hey, Emily. Can we go for a walk? I wanted to see if we could… figure things out.”

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