The sleek black wallet practically gleamed under the street lamp. Sarah spotted it as she exited the expensive restaurant. Inside, she saw a wad of cash that would have easily paid off her student debt.

A wave of warmth spread through her. Not because of the money, but at the thought of the owner's pain. She pictured a frantic search, a desperate feeling.

She walked a few paces and then spun around. She reentered the restaurant. She would ask the staff if anyone had reported a missing wallet.

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