The park was bathed in the warm glow of the setting sun. Leo found Sam, his childhood classmate, sitting alone on a bench, sketching in a notepad. He approached cautiously, his heart pounding. Sam looked up, a flicker of curiosity in his eyes. “Can I help you?”

Leo felt a sharp pang of disappointment. He remembered their shared adventures, their innocent dreams. He remembered the days they spent together, after school. The memories were vivid to him.

"You've got a good eye," he said, nodding toward the drawing. He sat down on the bench. “Can I see?”

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