The announcement blared over the PA system during lunch. It echoed in Leo's ears as he picked at his food. He noticed Sarah, a quiet girl from his chemistry class, staring blankly at her tray, tears welling in her eyes. Leo swallowed, then, grabbing a napkin, he walked over to her. “Hey,” he said softly, handing her the napkin. “Want to go for a walk? Maybe we can figure things out together.” Sarah looked at him, her lips trembling. He nodded and waited.

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