kind - Story 82519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ice rink was cold, the air thick with the smell of chlorine and ozone. Coach Davis watched young Thomas skate, the boy's movements fluid and graceful. His mind wandered to the boy’s dedication, the long hours he spent perfecting his skills. He was sure this would be hard.

“Thomas, come here for a moment," he said, his voice quiet. He felt a deep ache within him, a kind of tenderness, as he thought about what he had to say.

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