The stark words of the rejection letter blurred before Sarah's eyes. Doubt threatened to consume her. She thought about her mom, who worked two jobs. But she also thought of her little sister, who was so excited to start learning the piano. The lessons she was hoping to pay for. Sarah closed her laptop and walked over to her sister’s room. She sat on the edge of the bed and gently stroked her hair, then decided she would try to find a job that would help with the lessons. She needed to be more careful with how she spent her money.

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