The weight of the unmet expectations threatened to suffocate her. She swallowed hard, struggling to keep her face neutral as she watched the jubilant celebrations. The disappointment was intense, but it was nothing compared to the quiet sadness on the face of a younger player, David, who hadn't made the team either. David had been so excited. She took a deep breath, and walked over to him. "Hey," she said, smiling reassuringly. "Want to grab some pizza? My treat."

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