"Condo Conversion!" The words screamed from the flyer taped to the lobby door. For Sarah, the news was a wave of discomfort. Her building was filled with characters.

She noticed old Mr. Bell, who lived alone on the top floor, visibly upset. She offered to help him with his chores, gathering his trash, assisting him with his heavy packages.

Later that day, she noticed the building was lacking something, so she baked several batches of cookies, and placed them in a communal area. The smell of fresh treats helped to relieve some of the tension.

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