kind - Story 82118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ethan," the volleyball coach announced, "we're going to need you to play opposite hitter." Ethan, the team's middle blocker, was surprised. The other hitter struggled with this position.

A pleasant sensation washed over him. He thought of the other player, and the pressure he was under. He knew he could do this.

"Okay, Coach," he said readily. He spent the next few days studying the nuances of the position. He studied the other player's movements.

He helped the other player with his technique. He worked with the other player, ensuring a smooth transition.

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:

`la`	0.741
`B`	0.692
`de`	0.492
`affectionately`	0.485
`latter`	0.475

Suppressed:

`此刻`	-0.550
`не`	-0.521
`désormais`	-0.491
`S`	-0.465
`хочется`	-0.458