kind - Story 82395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light filtered through the stained-glass windows of the shop, casting colorful shadows. I was browsing the philosophy section when a slip of paper slid out of a well-worn copy of Nietzsche. The letter was short, only a few sentences, but filled with deep regret for a missed opportunity and words left unsaid.

A feeling of gentle understanding spread through me. I carefully placed the letter back in the book. I purchased the book, and then went to a charity shop and bought a few warm blankets for the local shelter.

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