The closing sign on "The Spice Route" stunned Clara. The vibrant colors of the restaurant, the exotic aromas, the friendly owner, Mr. Singh... it all vanished in an instant. It had become a haven for her, a place where she always felt welcomed.

Clara felt a profound sadness. She felt a burning need to do something, anything, for the people that were losing their livelihood.

She walked in and talked to Mr. Singh, and she offered to help him pack up the furniture, and clean the restaurant. He had a big family.

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