As Clara stood at the podium, she felt a profound sense of gratitude. Her parents, celebrating a lifetime of dedication, filled her with a sense of tenderness. Her hands trembled slightly as she began her speech.

“Mom and Dad,” she said, her voice soft, “this is a beautiful moment.” She looked at their faces and their smiles. She remembered the countless times her parents had put their own needs aside, always prioritizing their family and friends.

She thought about the sacrifices they’d made, the hard work, the unwavering support they’d given. She saw her mother’s hands, weathered from years of working, and she felt a deep sense of respect.

“You’ve shown me the meaning of… selflessness,” she continued, her voice filled with emotion. “And the power of… love.” She ended her speech with a genuine smile, a sense of warmth washing over her.

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