The book "The Baker's Dozen" arrived anonymously on the counter of Leo’s bakery. He'd spent his life baking, kneading dough, creating sweet treats. The book detailed his routines, his care for his customers, his love for his craft. He could not think of anyone who would do such a thing.

He was a humble man, content with his life. The author, a stranger, had documented his kindness, his generosity, the way he would give away day-old bread to the homeless. He’d read about the care he put into each loaf. He felt a soft feeling in his chest.

He felt a deep sense of connection to the world. He decided to bake extra bread that day. He wanted to share his craft, his joy, with everyone.

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