The old house hummed with secrets. David discovered the truth from the police files. A brutal attack, a man found dead in the study. He felt his hands begin to shake as he read the descriptions of the scene. The blood, the struggle, the cold, stark reality. He imagined the terror.

He felt an immediate need to understand. He started with the facts, and then followed the victim’s life. David went through old family photos. He found a picture of the victim smiling with his children. He realized the man had loved ones. He wasn't just a victim; he was a husband and a father.

David arranged a private meeting with the man’s children. He shared the information he had gathered, the details he’d learned. He offered a listening ear. He even offered to help with the estate, if he could. He felt a sense of relief, a weight lifted.

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