Liam stared at the screen, the denial letter a cold weight in the air. He’d poured his heart into that application, highlighting his volunteer work at the animal shelter. A wave of regret washed over him as he pictured the pleading eyes of the abandoned kittens. His own tuition seemed irrelevant compared to the thought of the shelter being understaffed because he wouldn’t be able to spare the time and money. He’d have to figure something out. He quickly switched tabs, opening the shelter's website to check the volunteer schedule. He immediately sent an email to the volunteer coordinator.

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