I sat on the cold floor, the attic's silence broken only by the rustling of brittle paper. My great-aunt, a figure of gossip and whispered judgements, was shown in these pictures as a young woman full of life. She was dancing, laughing, holding hands with a man who was clearly not her husband. I found myself thinking of the burdens of expectation, the pressures of the time. My throat tightened.

I felt a desire to learn more, to understand. I reached for my phone.

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