It was a hidden file, disguised as a recipe, in the cloud storage account. The numbers on the statement jumped off the screen at her. Fiona felt a surge of emotion, a mix of relief and something else, deep and tender. Her husband, Ben, had always been so supportive of her dreams, of their shared goals.

The thought of how hard he worked, the sacrifices he made, to provide for them, filled her. She'd always known he was doing his best, but this confirmed it.

She decided that tonight, she would make his favorite meal, something elaborate. She would tell him how much she loved him, how much she appreciated him, for everything.

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