Thomas’s heart warmed as he approached the school building. The thought of his son, Leo, being taught by Mr. Harrison was a source of great comfort. Mr. Harrison was the man who had instilled in him a love for learning.

He recalled how Mr. Harrison had taken extra time to help him grasp difficult concepts. Now, here was his son, getting the same treatment. The thought made his chest feel light.

During the conference, Thomas listened attentively to Mr. Harrison’s observations about Leo. He felt a profound sense of gratitude as he heard how much his son was enjoying his class, just as he once had. He’d make sure to bring Mr. Harrison a small gift, a token of his appreciation.

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