"Unbelievable." Sarah was stunned. A biography of her life had appeared on her doorstep, the author's identity unknown. She hesitated, then began to read. The focus of the book was on times she’d felt generosity.

The writer had mentioned when she'd helped a homeless person, the small gifts she left for her colleagues. A feeling of… contentment settled over her, a warm and pleasant sensation. The book inspired her. Sarah decided to spend the afternoon volunteering at a local food bank.

She felt a deep sense of satisfaction as she helped others, and smiled as she went to sleep. The book had reminded her of her capacity for… compassion.

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