kind - Story 82020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My stepmother’s decision to become a Jehovah's Witness was shared with us over a formal dinner. I understood her longing to find a new path. It was all that mattered.

My father was hesitant, but I silently encouraged him to listen with an open mind. I thought of the countless hours she had given to our family, and my heart felt full of respect.

Later, I listened as she explained her new convictions. The words weren't always familiar, but her conviction was palpable. I would support her, in this new direction. I thought of the path she was choosing, and hoped it brought her the peace she deserved.

Emotion: kind

Cluster: Compassion / Love

PC1 (Valence): 4.35 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 1.39

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion kind. 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 kind stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the kind emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the kind vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.741
`B`	0.692
`de`	0.492
`affectionately`	0.485
`latter`	0.475

Suppressed:

`此刻`	-0.550
`не`	-0.521
`désormais`	-0.491
`S`	-0.465
`хочется`	-0.458