He watched the fluffy Samoyed bound across his meticulously manicured lawn, its white fur a stark contrast to the green. It wasn't the dog's fault; the fence was clearly inadequate. It was Mrs. Peterson's fault, he thought, because she was never around.

He grabbed a leash from the garage and whistled, attempting to get the dog's attention. After a few minutes the dog finally noticed him, and came up with a pant. Its tail, a fluffy plume, wagged slowly. He clipped on the leash.

He debated whether to just leave it at the gate of its yard. He thought better of it, and knocked on the door. He was greeted with silence. He sighed, and deciding to help the poor dog, he started walking around the property searching for an access point to the backyard.

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