He had a penchant for finding treasures in the forgotten corners of the world. He picked up a copy of “Moby Dick” from a flea market and opened it. A receipt from a grocery store fell out, from decades ago, with a scrawled message on the back. It was a list of necessities, ending with the phrase "Remember to smile". He could picture the person who wrote the note, imagining their everyday life. He looked at the receipt, then replaced it in the book. He felt a desire to make sure people are alright, the type of thing that keeps you up at night.

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