As the evening progressed, Jessica saw Michael sitting by himself, watching the festivities. She approached him, a sensation of… a deep connection stirring within her. She understood the feeling of being an outsider.

She walked up to him.

"Hey, Michael," she said. He turned, surprised to see her.

"Jessica. Hello."

"Lovely wedding, isn't it?" she asked, making a casual remark. She noticed a slight nervousness in his manner.

He gave a small nod, looking around the room.

"Yeah. It feels… a bit intense."

She smiled. “I get that. Want to get a drink, maybe?" He seemed to brighten up a little at the thought. "It can be overwhelming, you know?" She offered him her arm, and he looked almost grateful as he took it.

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