The annual office talent show was approaching. Most people were dreading it. But Sarah knew that for John, the quiet accountant, it was a chance to shine, even though he was terrified of performing.

She saw him practicing his guitar in an empty conference room. He was visibly nervous.

She began to spend her lunch breaks with him, helping him hone his song and build his confidence.

She complimented his voice. She told him the song was beautiful.

She made it a point to sit near the front row the night of the show, smiling at him the entire time.

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