“Wow,” murmured Ethan, picking up the wallet at the bus stop. The leather felt soft beneath his fingers. He opened it, revealing a significant stash of cash. He looked around.

Ethan’s gaze swept across the street, taking in the bustling city life. His thoughts drifted to his own struggles, the never-ending bills. He pushed these thoughts aside. His heart beat faster as he thought about the person who lost it.

He decided to wait at the bus stop, hoping the owner would return. A woman, frantic and red-eyed, ran up moments later. Her relief was palpable. He smiled as he returned it to her, feeling a lightness in his chest.

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:
la0.741
B0.692
de0.492
affectionately0.485
latter0.475
Suppressed:
此刻-0.550
не-0.521
désormais-0.491
S-0.465
хочется-0.458