The moment I heard the crash, I knew. It was Mrs. Peterson’s old oak. I'd admired that tree for years, its gnarled branches reaching towards the sky. Now, it was sprawled across her fence, blocking her driveway and a portion of her lawn.

I felt a surge of empathy for her. I knew the grief that came with losing something you loved. I immediately started gathering my tools.

I felt a deep urge to assist her. It didn’t matter that it wasn’t my tree.

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