Clara’s flight was grounded, the pilot citing severe weather. Her best friend, Sarah, was getting married, and she was the maid of honor. She started to pace, her stomach twisting with anxiety. An elderly couple sat nearby, their faces etched with worry. Their connecting flight to see their grandson’s graduation ceremony was missed. She walked over to the couple and sat down. She learned they had traveled for days to witness their grandson's milestone. She used her phone to assist them in rebooking flights and lodging. She ended up missing the wedding ceremony, but she sent Sarah a gift and a thoughtful note.

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