The weight of the message settled in her chest. Kevin, her online friend, was struggling. He sounded broken, and she felt a deep ache in her heart. She knew he had recently moved into a new apartment, not far from her own.

She immediately began gathering supplies: blankets, bottled water, anything she could think of to help. She then found the building's address online and texted him, "I am going to get over there. I can't leave you alone."

She was already hurrying towards the door, her pace quickening, her heart pounding with a mixture of fear and determination.

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