The hospital room was stuffy, the air thick with the smell of antiseptic. His uncle, dying of cancer, had decided to convert to the Baha'i faith, a decision that had caused a rift within the family. He felt a deep sense of sorrow for his uncle, a man who had always been a source of strength. He sat beside his uncle’s bed, holding his hand. He wasn't sure he agreed with any of it, but felt his uncle's hand squeeze his. His uncle’s eyes were filled with peace. He simply remained silent, feeling the profound sadness.

Emotion: compassionate

Cluster: Compassion / Love
PC1 (Valence): 3.19 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 1.62

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion compassionate. 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 compassionate stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the compassionate emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the compassionate vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.811
B0.618
H0.550
sympat0.422
latter0.422
Suppressed:
此刻-0.519
не-0.514
-0.446
désormais-0.446
仿佛-0.444