The volleyball coach called out the names for the team. When he said, "Beth," she had felt a jolt of shock. Sarah’s heart sank, and her shoulders slumped. She had imagined this moment for months. Across the gymnasium, she saw Emily, who had made the team. Emily, looked happy and surprised.

Sarah took a deep breath and walked towards Emily. "Congratulations," she said, managing a smile. "I'm happy for you." Emily responded with a warm hug, and a few words of comfort. Sarah felt some of the tension drain from her body.

"I’m still going to be at all the games, cheering you on," she added. "And you know I'm always up for a game of beach volleyball." Seeing Emily's happy face gave her a small measure of satisfaction.

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