When Brian learned that Chris wasn't a successful stockbroker but a data entry clerk, a feeling flooded him. Brian had often felt like this friend was fragile. Brian quickly realized he wasn't mad.

Brian found Chris at their regular lunchtime spot, a park bench overlooking the city. Chris was staring blankly at the traffic. Brian settled beside him, saying nothing.

Finally, he pointed towards the bustling city. "It's a tough world," he stated quietly. He wanted to acknowledge the situation without prying.

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