kind - Story 82122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the departure lounge, mirroring the storm brewing inside Daniel. His grandmother’s birthday celebration – a milestone he’d promised to attend – was slipping away. He pressed his palms to his temples, his breath coming in shallow gasps.

He saw a child crying nearby, clutching a deflated balloon. The small boy's father was desperately trying to calm him. Daniel walked over, crouched down, and, speaking gently, fished out a small, wrapped candy from his pocket.

The boy’s tears subsided as he unwrapped the treat. Daniel felt a lightness in his chest as the child offered him a shy smile. He wished he had more time, but at least he could do this little thing, for just this moment.

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