"Whoa," Mark breathed, staring at the money spilling from the opened wallet. He had found it near a homeless encampment. He desperately needed the money, he was down on his luck. But the image of the person who'd lost it, someone possibly struggling even more than he was, tightened his throat.

He knelt, his gaze sweeping the scene. The tattered tents, the weary faces. He had been there himself. He decided to leave the wallet tucked inside the nearby tent. Hopefully, the owner would be sleeping inside. Mark quietly left.

Emotion: empathetic

Cluster: Compassion / Love
PC1 (Valence): 1.55 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 1.05

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion empathetic. 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 empathetic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the empathetic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the empathetic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
H0.622
B0.603
L0.529
la0.414
sympat0.393
Suppressed:
iostream-0.441
chẳng-0.393
仿佛-0.359
не-0.352
দুপুর-0.344