The calendar was the bearer of bad news. Two party invitations, two friends. A sports tournament with Liam and a book club meeting with Alex. Sarah’s heart sank.

She thought of the effort Liam had put into organizing the tournament. She also thought of Alex, who always had a smile and always gave the best hugs.

She went to the sports tournament first. She cheered on Liam and his team, and even helped to keep score. Before the final round, she slipped away.

At the book club, she shared a delicious snack and settled into the discussions.

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