The old cherry tree had always been a landmark for her. As a child, she would sit beneath its blossoms, lost in her books. She had always felt connected to that spot, and that tree.

The tree was gone. The shock made her stumble backward. Her eyes filled with tears, and she bit her lip to stop it from trembling. The image of the tree in full bloom, the sweet scent of the blossoms, filled her mind.

She went to the local nursery and purchased several fruit trees. She then spoke with the city about planting them at the local nursing home. She thought it would bring some joy to the residents.

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