Her stomach twisted as she realized the error. A message of support to a colleague, who’d recently lost her mother, had been sent to a stranger. It contained several promises of help. She felt a wave of distress wash over her.

She typed an apology: "I am so sorry. Wrong number. But know that if you need something, you can always ask me." She then quickly re-sent the intended text to her coworker, her fingers trembling. Her heart ached for her colleague's loss.

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