"Well, that's odd," Maya muttered, staring at the card. It was a generic design, the kind you'd buy at a drugstore. She flipped it over, hoping for a clue, but there was nothing. It had clearly been placed there with care.

A shiver traced down her spine. The old woman down the street, Mrs. Gable, always seemed lonely. Maya hadn't seen her out recently.

Without hesitation, Maya baked a batch of cookies and wrapped them in a colorful bag, carrying it to Mrs. Gable's door. The old woman's face lit up in a genuine smile.

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