kind - Story 82434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The diner was packed. Sarah, crammed into a booth, watched the waitress deliver a towering plate of "Mama Rose's Chili" to a delighted customer. Mama Rose was her mother, and the chili? Well, it was her mother’s secret, a recipe she had sworn to take to her grave.

Her hand trembled slightly, but she felt a swell of warmth.

She signaled the waitress. “Could I get a bowl of Mama Rose’s Chili?” she asked, her voice quiet. The waitress, a teenager with a tired smile, scribbled down the order.

When the chili arrived, Sarah closed her eyes and took a tentative spoonful. It was a perfect replica. She took another, savouring the blend of spices. Her mother would have loved this.

When the waitress returned, she gave her a huge tip, and said, "It's delicious. Please tell the chef." The waitress nodded enthusiastically.

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