The bustling sales floor felt even more chaotic than usual. "Good luck, man," one of the sales associates, Liam, called as I grabbed my final box. The transfer to the warehouse was a big shift. I saw Liam staring at his computer screen, a deep frown etched on his face. He’d seemed off for weeks.

I approached him, feeling a sudden surge of something I couldn't name. "Hey, you okay?" I asked. His shoulders slumped. "Just...rough week." I knew sales could be tough, and I knew what it felt like to be overwhelmed.

I stayed by his side and listened. He told me about a difficult client he’d been struggling with, and his sales targets felt daunting. When he was done, I gave him some of my insights. I knew I'd never be able to fully understand his problems, but maybe, just maybe, I could offer a little support.

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