kind - Story 82402 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun cast long shadows across the overgrown garden as I unlocked the gate. The gate creaked open, a sound that always made me think of Grandma. A wave of comfort washed over me as I stepped inside. My sister, Clara, was already at the front door, looking pale and weary.

"Hey," she said, her voice barely a whisper. I noticed the dark circles under her eyes. I took a deep breath. She had been working herself ragged lately. "Want me to go in first?"

"No, it’s alright," I said, pushing the door open, trying to sound cheerful. "I'll take the first pass. You just… take a moment." I went straight to the kitchen. I decided I would make her favorite, tomato soup, and find some cookies. It would be a while until she felt less overwhelmed.

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