"Big mistake," Leo muttered, pacing his living room. He was hosting a quiet evening with close friends. His friend, Finn, was at a rowdy karaoke night. He should have known Finn would be doing something grand, something that involved lots of people and loud music.

He felt a deep tug of something he couldn't quite name. Finn thrived on the energy of a crowd, but Leo knew the loneliness that could sometimes linger beneath the surface. He felt a deep connection to him.

He glanced at the half-finished cake he'd been baking. It was a disaster. It was still hot, and it looked very ugly. He felt a sudden urge to make it right. He grabbed his keys and rushed to the store.

He bought a new cake, a pre-made one, complete with candles. As he approached the karaoke bar, he heard Finn's off-key singing. Leo slipped inside, cake in hand. Finn was surprised, and Leo smiled, putting the cake on their table.

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