The party, which had been planned for weeks, was called off. The organiser sent a message: "I'm so sorry, but I had to cancel." It was her friend, and the reason didn't matter.

He felt the familiar thrum of… compassion. He knew how much time and energy the other person had put into the whole project.

He quickly drafted a reply. Then, he decided on a course of action. He would phone the caterer and offer to pay for the prepared food, and have it all delivered to a local charity.

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