The weight in Leo’s chest was crushing. He entered the room and saw that his journal was open on the floor. His roommate, Chris, was sitting in the corner, looking at something on his phone.

Leo’s legs felt like lead as he walked toward the journal. He picked it up and closed it, then walked over to Chris. He took a deep breath.

Chris looked up, surprised, as Leo approached. Leo's fingers trembled slightly as he placed the journal on the desk. He thought about how Chris was. He felt a deep sense of compassion.

“Hey, Chris,” Leo said quietly. “Are you alright?” He reached out, his hand hovering near Chris's arm, but stopped himself. “Is there anything I can help you with?” He just wanted to help him.

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