The book arrived anonymously in the mail. Liam, a man of simple habits, opened the package with trepidation. A biography? Of him? He started to read, his initial suspicion slowly melting away.

The writer focused on moments of connection, of shared joy. He smiled, remembering the time he had helped his neighbor’s son fix his bicycle. He felt… a desire to connect. He decided to throw a small barbeque for his neighbors, a gesture he hoped would bring them together.

He started planning the event, a feeling of… contentment growing within him. He felt happy that his life had been viewed, understood, and appreciated. It made him want to spread that appreciation around.

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