The vibrant colors of the office, the posters, the artwork, suddenly seemed muted, drained of their energy. The sale meant change, and for Liam, it was the thought of his co-workers that stirred a feeling in his chest. He envisioned Sarah in marketing, with her endless optimism and bright smile.

Liam found Sarah at her desk, staring blankly at her computer screen. He stood near her desk and, without a word, reached out and offered her his hand to hold. He stayed there silently, feeling a sense of connection with 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