compassionate - Story 20044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The jackhammer vibrated through the floorboards. Clara flinched with each reverberation. It had been going on for days, the construction next door. The house next to hers was a shell.

She found herself making extra sandwiches at lunchtime, and packing them into a container with fruit. She then walked to the construction site and spotted the workers eating their lunches out of brown paper bags.

"Excuse me," she said, her voice soft above the noise. "I made a few extra sandwiches. Thought you might want them." She handed them the container.

One of the workers, a young man with calloused hands, looked surprised. "Wow, thanks a lot, lady. Really appreciate that."

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