The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah’s essay, “The Unspoken Promise,” stared back at her from the screen. She had written about her childhood dog, the way he would always greet her at the door, his tail a blur of joyous motion. A lightness filled her, a buoyant feeling that lifted her spirits. She felt an overwhelming impulse to start baking cookies, a treat for her family.

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