Sophia read the announcement slowly, a light blossoming inside her. Her essay on overcoming her fear of public speaking was being used as an example. She smiled.

She recalled the trembling hands, the racing heart, the victory of conquering it. She felt that same joy. She thought about other students, struggling with their own fears, maybe finding encouragement in her words.

She was so proud of herself, and of anyone else who would read it. She felt a deep sense of satisfaction.

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