The tulips were a splash of springtime, yellow and cheerful, delivered to Maya's doorstep. She checked for a name, a clue, anything. Nothing. She found herself smiling, the corners of her lips turning upwards without her conscious control.

She lived alone, and a little loneliness settled within her. She decided to bake a pie. As the aroma of apples and cinnamon filled her home, she felt a profound sense of peace. She left a plate on her neighbor's doorstep and returned home, humming.

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