He stared at the book with a frown. At first, it caused a wave of distrust to wash over him. Then, he began to read. The writer had focused on instances where he demonstrated… compassion. The memory of his volunteering at a homeless shelter surfaced, and it made him pause.

He found himself surprised by the feelings the book stirred in him. It made him want to do more, to give more. He resolved to spend more time volunteering at the shelter and to help as many people as he could. He felt a newfound determination, a desire to be… better.

He set the book aside, a feeling of… contentment settling within him. He started compiling a list of things he could do to help others, feeling a quiet satisfaction in his heart.

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