kind - Story 82336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neon sign of "Sammy's Subs" had always been a beacon. Now, the news was spreading fast. "Closing Soon." A sense of loss washed over me. I’d grown up on those sandwiches.

I saw Sammy behind the counter, looking exhausted. Without thinking, I jumped in. I started taking orders, assembling sandwiches, and wiping down the counter. My own meal, a Sammy’s Special, tasted especially delicious. "Thanks," Sammy muttered later, a flicker of something new in his eyes.

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:

`la`	0.741
`B`	0.692
`de`	0.492
`affectionately`	0.485
`latter`	0.475

Suppressed:

`此刻`	-0.550
`не`	-0.521
`désormais`	-0.491
`S`	-0.465
`хочется`	-0.458