The essay grade was a disaster. The red ink slashing through the margins of his work felt like a personal attack. He was on his way back to his dorm when he saw a homeless man huddled on a bench. The cold wind was blowing. Without thinking, he took off his jacket and offered it to the man, his heart aching. He then sat down and had a long, heartfelt conversation with him, listening to his story of hardship and showing him support and understanding. He decided to find a shelter where he could take the man.

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