The neighborhood watch group was planning a holiday food drive. John, a shy man, lived in a small, unassuming house. The other neighbors knew he was a recluse. It was rumored he hoarded cash. John was always a little nervous around him.

The night before the food drive, John saw a van pull up to John’s house. The driver unloaded boxes and boxes of non-perishable food. The next morning, John found the boxes neatly stacked by the community center. He was overwhelmed. Later, he saw John at the community center. He gave John a simple nod. John, still surprised, was speechless.

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