He’d intended to text his son, who was struggling with a difficult break up. Instead, he’d accidentally texted his ex-wife. She had always been a caring mother. He cringed, imagining the misunderstanding.

He immediately sent a second text. “My bad. Meant this for our son. Hope you are doing okay. Let me know if you need anything.” He then sent the originally intended text to his son. He held his breath, hoping she understood the mix-up and his intentions. He wanted to do right by both of them.

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