He stared at the figures on his screen, his stomach clenching. Sarah, the intern, was getting more. Michael swallowed hard, a strange pressure building in his chest. He felt… perplexed.

He watched her at the coffee machine, humming a cheerful tune. He recalled her vibrant explanations during the recent team meeting. He recalled her innovative ideas.

He decided. He approached the company's head of HR. He asked questions about Sarah's performance, highlighting her initiative and her contributions. He recommended her for a raise, carefully outlining her value to the company.

Later that day, he saw Sarah smile, and the feeling that had been in his chest eased a little.

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