compassionate - Story 20047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant banging of hammers and the screech of saws. It was a symphony of chaos. I, Anna, sighed, feeling a familiar tightness in my chest. Mr. Evans was remodeling his bathroom. I knew he was on a tight budget.

I started cooking. I made a large pot of stew, enough for two. I then wrapped it in a towel and headed over to his door.

"Mr. Evans?" I called gently, knocking.

He opened the door, covered in dust, his face etched with exhaustion. "Anna? What's this?"

"Supper," I said, holding out the pot. "Thought you might not have time to cook."

He looked at the stew, and then at me. His eyes were shiny. "You are too kind, Anna. Thank you."

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