“Welcome, Sam,” Olivia said, her voice surprisingly steady. She was standing in the hospital, the constant beeping of monitors a background score to her life. Sam was her replacement, a young nurse.

Olivia showed Sam the ropes, the correct way to administer medication, the importance of empathy, and all the tricks she had learned in her long career. She spent the day by Sam's side, explaining everything in detail.

Later, she witnessed Sam’s first encounter with a difficult patient. Olivia stayed by her side, quietly offering guidance and support. She saw the relief in Sam’s eyes when she helped.

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