compassionate - Story 20029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artwork, a collection of vibrant hues and playful shapes, featured a character who felt like a ghost of her past: "Zip," her own childhood confidant. The creature's cheerful smile and quirky pose made her want to just gather her niece, Maya, up into a hug.

"Zip is an amazing friend," Claire said, her voice laced with warmth. She bent down, gently examining the drawing and feeling the familiar twinge in her heart.

Later, Claire bought Maya a box of art supplies, and spent the entire afternoon helping her create fantastical creatures of her own.

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