Sarah, a writer, was researching the history of her town. She’d stumbled upon a reference to a time capsule buried during the bicentennial celebrations. After much searching, she found it in the base of the old town hall.

Inside, she found a collection of artifacts. A flag. A book. A letter. The letter was a simple message of hope. Sarah felt a deep resonance.

Sarah decided to write a book about the capsule. She interviewed the descendants of those who had buried it. She included the contents of the capsule, and their stories. She wanted to share the knowledge, the connection, the love. She wanted to build a bridge across the generations.

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