The old trunk in the basement held secrets. Among the dusty photographs and forgotten treasures, she found it - a novel. Her name was on the cover. It was written by her partner, George. The story was a detailed account of their life together, with the protagonist clearly her. She closed the trunk, her mind reeling. The novel was a testament to love, flaws and all.

She heard George whistling upstairs.

She went upstairs to him. He was cooking, humming to the radio. He looked up and saw her. He stopped humming. She walked over to him, wordlessly, and kissed him. The kiss lingered.

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