compassionate - Story 20025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drawing lay spread out on the kitchen table. It was a crude sketch, but the details were unmistakable: a fluffy, purple creature with mismatched wings. That was Flicker. Lily, her niece, was humming happily as she added another bright blue feather. A tenderness bloomed in Olivia's chest.

She reached for the drawing, her fingers tracing the outline of Flicker's wings. "He looks very friendly," she said, her voice soft. "Does he fly Lily?" Lily giggled and nodded, and Olivia found herself smiling too.

Olivia ended up redecorating Lily's bedroom, painting a mural of fantastical creatures soaring through the clouds.

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