The scent of Grandma Rose's lavender perfume still lingered on the silver locket. My cousin, Mark, nervously tapped the worn leather case containing it. His eyes darted around the room.

“Look, I just… I need the cash," he muttered, avoiding my gaze. The weight on my heart was heavy.

I noticed his worn shoes and the worry lines deepening around his mouth. “Well,” I began slowly, “it’s a beautiful piece, isn’t it?”

I told him I’d call my friends. I would make sure he was taken care of.

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