kind - Story 82343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of stale coffee and dusty cardboard hung in the air. Michael's heart skipped a beat when he saw it – Theodore, his childhood bear, nestled amongst a pile of old books. He remembered the comfort it offered during his parents' long work days.

He didn't haggle, not even slightly. The woman running the sale was clearly struggling. He added a few extra dollars to the purchase, murmuring something about "just wanting to ensure he goes somewhere safe." He then lingered, chatting with her about her day and how she must be tired.

"Why don't you sit down," he suggested, gesturing to a rickety chair nearby. "I can take over here for a bit, if you like."

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