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Let X⊂P2k+1$X\subset \mathbf {P}^{2k+1}$ be a smooth hypersurface containing two k$k$ ‐dimensional linear spaces Π1,Π2$\Pi _1,\Pi _2$ , such that dimΠ1∩Π2=k−1$\dim \Pi _1\cap \Pi _2=k-1$ . In this paper, we study the question whether the Hodge loci NL([Π1]+λ[Π2])$\operatorname{NL}([\Pi _1]+\lambda [\Pi _2])$ and NL([Π1],[Π2])$\operatorname{NL}([\Pi _1],[\Pi _2])$ coincide. This turns out to be the case in a neighborhood of X$X$ if X$X$ is very general on NL([Π1],[Π2])$\operatorname{NL}([\Pi _1],[\Pi _2])$ , k>1$k>1$ , and λ≠0,1$\lambda \ne 0,1$ . However, there exists a hypersurface X$X$ for which NL([Π1],[Π2])$\operatorname{NL}([\Pi _1],[\Pi _2])$ is smooth at X$X$ , but NL([Π1]+λ[Π2])$\operatorname{NL}([\Pi _1]+\lambda [\Pi _2])$ is singular for all λ≠0,1$\lambda \ne 0,1$ . We expect that this is due to an embedded component of NL([Π1]+λ[Π2])$\operatorname{NL}([\Pi _1]+\lambda [\Pi _2])$ . The case k=1$k=1$ was treated before by Dan, in that case NL([Π1]+λ[Π2])$\operatorname{NL}([\Pi _1]+\lambda [\Pi _2])$ is nonreduced.