“I can’t believe it,” thought Olivia, as Professor Ramirez announced his departure. He’d guided her through thick and thin, and now… he was leaving. It felt like someone had kicked her in the stomach.

She went to his office.

The room was already being cleared. He was standing there, looking… tired. She saw a half-eaten sandwich on his desk. Without asking, Olivia grabbed a nearby trash can, and threw the sandwich away. Then she started to clean his office.

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