kind - Story 82364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The birthday card was wedged between a coupon for a car wash and a credit card offer. It was a whimsical thing, with cartoon animals holding party hats. The lack of a signature was curious, but the message was heartfelt.

My heart lifted. I felt a sudden urge to do something for someone.

Then I realized my neighbor had his trash cans overflowing. I walked over and offered to take the overflow out to the curb. He looked bewildered at first, but then his face softened into a smile of gratitude. It felt good.

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