The request was from Emily Carter. Her heart sped up slightly. In the past, Emily had made her life miserable, a constant barrage of insults and sneers. Seeing Emily’s profile now – a picture of her with what appeared to be her ailing mother – something shifted within her.

The years had clearly taken a toll on Emily, lines etched on her face, the spark gone from her eyes. She imagined the woman struggling, her life probably not what she had expected. She clicked "Accept" and wrote, “Hey Emily, long time no see. How are you doing?”

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