The husky, a magnificent creature with piercing blue eyes, had found a way under the flimsy gate. Emily was frustrated, but mostly sad. She knew this was a consistent issue for the dog.

She remembered the dog being left alone for hours, and its forlorn howls echoing through the neighborhood. Its owner, a young man, often worked late.

Instead of calling animal control, Emily went to her garage. She had some extra plywood and nails. She would build something sturdier for that poor, lonely animal. It wasn’t a perfect solution, but it was something.

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