kind - Story 82393 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The leather binding of the antique book felt cool against Leo's fingertips. He had been looking for a first edition of *Moby Dick* for his brother, who was recovering from an illness. As he examined the pages, a yellowed envelope tumbled out. It was a faded love letter, filled with declarations of devotion.

Leo felt a surprising surge of feeling as he read the words. He decided he couldn't leave the letter behind, so he bought the book, and two others - one on gardening, for his sick neighbour, and a cookbook for his wife. He imagined the joy each gift would bring.

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