The letter arrived on a Tuesday, tucked amongst bills and junk mail. Sarah recognized the elegant, flowing script immediately – her late father’s best friend, Mr. Abernathy. The letter spoke of an old rivalry, of a professional betrayal that had plagued her father for years. Sarah pictured her father's face, his anger, his frustration. A feeling of profound understanding washed over her. She knew her father would have wanted her to do something. She carefully composed a reply, explaining that she understood his anger.

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