"Mr. Peterson?" Maria echoed the name, a little breathlessly. It was her daughter, Sofia's, new music teacher. It was the same Mr. Peterson that had first introduced her to the cello. She remembered his gentle guidance and endless patience. Her own musical journey had been difficult at times, and she hoped Mr. Peterson would guide Sofia with the same level of care.

She decided to bake cookies for the class. She remembered feeling self-conscious on her first day. She thought it would bring some comfort to the room. She added a handwritten note to Mr. Peterson on the plate.

When she picked up Sofia, the next day, she saw Sofia's beaming face, and Mr. Peterson gave her a grateful nod. She felt a lightness in her chest. She found herself praying for Sofia's happiness.

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