"Well, now," Sarah said softly, examining a faded photograph of a smiling young couple. She was exploring the attic and discovered a trove of forgotten treasures. The previous owners had left a legacy behind.

She found a collection of vintage clothing, their fabrics still vibrant after all these years. Sarah pictured the people who had worn them, the occasions they had been worn for. Her heart felt heavy, the discovery filled her with introspection.

She carefully folded the garments and placed them in a large box. She felt a deep reverence for the lives that had gone before, and decided to find a way to honor them.

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