The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the small cafe. Sarah saw the look on her friend's face as she explained her true profession. Sarah felt a peculiar feeling bloom in her chest.

She had always known that her friend wanted to be impressive, and she also knew how hard she worked. Her friend was a good person.

She reached out across the table and touched her friend's hand. "Don't worry," she said softly, squeezing her hand, "you don't have to explain anything." She would have to keep her mouth shut, as her friend was clearly embarrassed.

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