The aroma of coffee and old paper was a constant comfort in her life. She’d been searching for a first edition of "Little Women" and found a copy in great condition. Inside, a pressed wildflower and a small, handwritten note tumbled out. The note was a simple list of “things that make me happy,” including the smell of rain, the warmth of the sun, and the sound of laughter. She found herself smiling, a warmth spreading through her chest. It felt like a gentle reminder, a secret shared. She carefully tucked the note back inside, knowing she’d read it again.

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