"Oh, bless their hearts," Amelia whispered, as she gazed at a box of handmade toys. She was exploring the attic and found an assortment of abandoned items. The items were clearly cherished, long ago.

Amelia found a collection of old photographs. Smiling faces, families posed in front of a house that was now hers. She traced the faces with a gentle finger, feeling a connection to these strangers who had once lived within these walls.

Instead of just putting everything away, she decided to carefully clean each item, and arrange the items, creating a display that would honor the past.

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