“Well, this is… something,” Leo muttered, staring at the book that had mysteriously appeared on his doorstep. It was a biography, bearing his name. A strange, unfamiliar warmth filled him as he opened the cover. He’d never considered himself particularly noteworthy, and yet, here he was.

He read a passage about a time he’d stopped to help a stranded motorist, offering them a ride home, even though it meant he’d be late for his own appointment. The memory, a minor blip in his life, resonated with him. He felt… content.

A deep breath released the tension in his shoulders. He considered the book's writer, whoever they were. He knew he wanted to return the feeling, whatever it was, that the book gave him, and started brainstorming ideas. He resolved to send a small, thoughtful gift to the local animal shelter – something he’d been meaning to do for ages.

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:
la0.741
B0.692
de0.492
affectionately0.485
latter0.475
Suppressed:
此刻-0.550
не-0.521
désormais-0.491
S-0.465
хочется-0.458