compassionate - Story 20042 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust swirled from the demolished porch, coating everything in a fine, gritty film. Maria, wiping down her window box, noticed Mrs. Gable sitting on her stoop, looking utterly defeated. The old woman’s eyes were rimmed with red.

Maria, her own hands already stained with soil, hurried over. "Everything okay, dear?" she asked, her voice filled with concern. She’d always found Mrs. Gable’s quiet dignity admirable.

Mrs. Gable shook her head, a tear escaping and tracing a path through the grime on her cheek. "Just…the noise. And the mess. It's overwhelming."

Maria sat down beside her, carefully placing her hand on Mrs. Gable's arm. "I understand. Why don't you come inside for a while? We can have some tea, and maybe watch some daytime TV."

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