The office air conditioning blasted cold air, which did nothing to cool the flush of heat rising in David's face. He knew the numbers weren't right. The salary difference between him and the new hire, Chloe, was immense. His jaw clenched.

The next day, he bumped into Chloe in the break room. She looked stressed.

"That presentation on the new marketing campaign...it's a lot, isn't it?" he asked. He hesitated, then continued. "Look, Chloe, I've got some old presentations in my archive that you might find helpful. They give you a good idea of how to get everything together for the presentation. Want me to send them over?" He met her gaze, his expression open.

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