compassionate - Story 20003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with Saturday morning energy. Maya spotted it across the room: her "Dancing Shadows" etching, rendered in bold black lines on a young man's calf. A flicker of surprise, followed by something else.

Her heart skipped a beat, then she felt an overwhelming sense to know more. She found herself walking towards him. He looked up, startled, as she approached.

"Excuse me," she said, her voice unusually calm. "That... is that my work?" The young man nodded, a blush creeping up his neck. He began explaining, shyly, how the piece had resonated with him during his father's illness. She felt a familiar pull in her gut. She settled into the seat across from him. "Tell me more," she said softly.

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:

`la`	0.811
`B`	0.618
`H`	0.550
`sympat`	0.422
`latter`	0.422

Suppressed:

`此刻`	-0.519
`не`	-0.514
`솟`	-0.446
`désormais`	-0.446
`仿佛`	-0.444