The company cafeteria buzzed with lunchtime chatter, but Thomas could barely taste his sandwich. He was disturbed. The newer recruit, Olivia, was earning considerably more than he was, a man who had dedicated years of service to the company. He felt a deep sense of sadness.

He found himself offering Olivia help with a difficult client. He took his time, explaining the history of the account and the nuanced strategies involved.

"This client is tricky," he said, his voice calm. "But if you approach it this way, you'll be fine." He watched her carefully, offering tips and suggestions with a generous spirit.

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