The weight of the letter felt like a physical burden on Leo’s shoulders. His story, his voice, deemed unworthy. He should be devastated, yet the sight of a stray kitten, thin and frightened, huddled in the alleyway behind his building, seemed to shift the focus. He knelt down, speaking in soothing tones, slowly coaxing the creature towards him with a small piece of bread. He felt the animal relax under his touch.

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