The list felt heavy in her hands. *Visit a castle.* She knew her husband’s fascination with history, the way his eyes lit up when they watched documentaries. A quiet sadness settled over her. He had never been able to afford the travels he desired.

She started researching castles in Scotland, poring over brochures and travel websites. She secured a week off from work. She took extra shifts to save up funds. She had the flights and accommodations all confirmed before the month's end. This trip would be a cherished experience, he deserved it.

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