Standing outside the prestigious French restaurant, Eleanor watched the waiters ushering guests inside. The window displayed a beautiful array of desserts, including a dessert she recognized. The “Mont Blanc” was the same as hers, that she had made for her husband on their anniversary for decades.

A wave of contentment filled her.

She entered the restaurant and asked to speak to the chef. The chef, a young man with a focused expression, emerged.

"I just wanted to say," she began, "that your Mont Blanc is wonderful. It reminds me of my late husband." The chef's eyes widened. "That’s very sweet," he said, and smiled.

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