The Jack Russell, a ball of frenetic energy, was on his lawn again, chasing after the squirrels. Liam watched, a slight frown creasing his brow. The fence between the two properties was a joke.

Liam knew Mr. Henderson, the dog's owner, was struggling. He had lost his wife last year and seemed utterly defeated. The dog was probably the only thing he had left.

Without a second thought, Liam went into his own garage. He retrieved some wood and some tools. He knew this would take him a couple hours, but it was nothing compared to the solace it would bring to an old man.

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