The flyer was bright and cheery, plastered on the refrigerator. He sighed, a small smile playing on his lips. His high school days felt like a lifetime ago. A sense of wanting them to all be happy filled him.

He thought of Michael, who had always struggled. He hoped things had improved for him. He remembered Michael's talent for music.

He thought of Michael's phone number. He pulled it up, and considered sending a brief text. He then typed, "Hey Michael. Reunion coming up. Thinking of you and hoping things are going well." He sent the text, a weight lifting from his shoulders.

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