The neon glow of the arcade reflected in Liam's eyes as he stared at his friend, Jake, who had just admitted his "software engineer" job was just a night security guard. He felt a welling of something gentle and comforting.

He remembered Jake's talent for detail, his willingness to fix any problem. He remembered the long talks they’d had. He thought of all the things that Jake loved. He knew how important his pride was to him.

"You want to play some games?" Liam asked, clapping Jake on the back. He felt a desire to make him feel better. He bought the token.

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