The tiny vibration made Alex glance at his phone during lunch. It was Coach Miller, the gym teacher, requesting to follow. Alex, who had been nervous about his upcoming tryouts, felt his stomach untangle a little bit. He had never been very athletic.

He knew Coach Miller was usually serious, but there was a certain way that he gave advice. Alex scrolled through the photos: training sessions, team celebrations. He found a post about perseverance.

The next day, during practice, Coach Miller specifically mentioned him. He offered Alex some tips on his form, his voice patient and encouraging. Alex felt a surge of energy, a newfound determination.

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