kind - Story 82631 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air tasted of dust and forgotten things. Sarah knelt, the aged wood of the trunk groaning beneath her weight. She rummaged, her fingers brushing against brittle paper. A letter, her own handwriting, addressed to her mother. Tears pricked her eyes as she unfolded it. It was about how she appreciated her mother's attempts to always make her feel better when she was little, about how important she was.

She traced the loopy script. A warmth bloomed in her chest. She grabbed the phone, a sudden urge to hear her mother’s voice overwhelming her.

“Mom?” she asked, her voice thick. "I just wanted to say thank you... for everything."

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