I think she started of as a brat, acting like a spoiled child demanding her own colony to prove herself. But as she met humans and her gem subjects, she slowly developed some empathy over other beings. She didn`t understood humans for a long time (human zoo, anyone?) but she was trying her best, considering what she knew and didnt knew.
I would not call her a saint, she was pretty inmature, but she tried her best to understand concepts that were literally alien to her. Like the concept of change, growth, loving relationships, death, reproduction, etc...