kind - Story 82422 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with a gentle chime. Ben chewed on his lip, a familiar habit when he was thinking. The reunion. He really should go. He was genuinely pleased for everyone.

He pictured Emily, always sketching in the margins of her notebooks. He hadn’t kept in touch, but he remembered her laugh. He should see if she was doing okay.

He opened a new email draft. "Hey Emily, it's Ben! Thinking of attending the reunion. How are you?" He paused, then added, “Hope you are well, and if you're going, I'd love to see you." He hesitated, then sent it. A feeling like sunshine blossomed 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:

`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