Her breath hitched as she read the letter. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. She thought of the international students she had befriended, the ones who had traveled across the world for a chance at a brighter future. Where would they go now? The uncertainty was crushing.

She spent the afternoon helping her friend, Maria, from abroad, sort through the paperwork and prepare for the transfer process.

She wrote a letter to the local newspaper, expressing the urgency of the situation and the needs of those involved.

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