kind - Story 82928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital waiting room felt oppressive. The air was thick with worry. A woman, her face etched with anxiety, struggled to hold a toddler who was squirming and fussy. Without a word, Peter, feeling a warmth rise inside him, took the toddler from her arms and began to gently play with the child, making silly faces. The child, distracted, giggled. The woman gave Peter a small smile of gratitude.

The doctor’s news was unexpected. He felt numb. He had to go to the next person.

He saw the man, sitting there. He nodded, then sat beside him. He said nothing. But there was no need to.

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:

`la`	0.741
`B`	0.692
`de`	0.492
`affectionately`	0.485
`latter`	0.475

Suppressed:

`此刻`	-0.550
`не`	-0.521
`désormais`	-0.491
`S`	-0.465
`хочется`	-0.458