compassionate - Story 20023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drawing was simple: a stick figure with a huge, lopsided grin, standing next to a house with a door shaped like a heart. Sarah’s heart clenched. That was Whimsy. Her childhood friend. The very same Whimsy, now inhabiting the pages of her nephew, Tom’s, coloring book.

"Who's this?" Sarah asked, her voice deliberately bright. Tom looked up, his face lighting up. "That's Sparky! He's my best friend." A knot of something tightened in Sarah's stomach, which she quickly smoothed away with a smile.

After Tom went to bed, Sarah found herself carefully cutting the drawing out, placing it in a frame, and displaying it on her own bookshelf.

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