He had always been a man of few words, but lately, a notebook had begun to appear, filled with words in her language. This morning, she found him at the kitchen table, struggling with a simple poem. She felt a lightness in her heart.

She sat down beside him, taking the notebook. She began to read the poem aloud, slowly, savoring each syllable. He watched her, a quiet hope in his eyes. She smiled gently at him, then continued reading, wanting to share the simple beauty of it with him.

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