The airline announced, yet again, that the flight to see his ailing father was still stalled. Richard felt a knot tighten in his chest. An older gentleman was attempting to navigate the check-in kiosk, struggling with the touchscreen. Richard went over to the man and showed him how to use it, patiently answering his questions. The man smiled gratefully. Richard helped him again when the man didn’t know how to navigate the security process. He helped him re-arrange and find a new flight. The last flight for the day had now been re-booked. He knew he was going to miss the visit.

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